1752 in music

Events

• June 13 – Composer Maria Teresa Agnesi marries Pier Antonio Pinottini.
• George Frideric Handel is operated on for an eye condition, at Guy's Hospital in London.
• Christoph Willibald Gluck becomes Konzertmeister at Vienna.
• Artist Thomas Gainsborough joins the Ipswich Musical Society; he later paints the portrait of English composer Joseph Gibbs
• Nicola Porpora leaves Dresden for Vienna.
• Johann Wilhelm Hertel replaces his father, Johann Christian Hertel, as Kapellmeister at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
• Anton Cajetan Adlgasser marries Maria Josepha, daughter of Johann Ernst Eberlin.

Publications

• Johann Joachim Quantz – Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen

Classical music

• Jephtha (oratorio) by Handel

Opera

• Jean-Baptiste Cardonne – Amaryllis
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Le Devin du Village (part of Rousseau's response in the Querelle des Bouffons)

Publications

• Charles Avison – Essay on Musical Expression
• Johann Joachim Quantz – Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversière zu spielen, a treatise on the flute

Births

• January 23 – Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist (died 1832)
• February 12 – Josef Reicha, conductor and composer (died 1795)
• April 4 – Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, composer (died 1837)
• April 5 – Sébastien Érard, piano-maker (died 1831)
• May 2 – Ludwig August Lebrun, composer (died 1790)
• September 8 – Carl Stenborg, operatic tenor and composer (died 1813)
• November 25 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer and music critic (died 1814)
• date unknown – Abraham Wood, military drummer and composer (died 1804)

Deaths

• March 7 – Pietro Castrucci, violinist and composer (born 1679)
• June 19 – Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, harpsichord and clavichord maker
• July 20 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer
• July 24 – Michael Festing (composer), violinist and composer