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Events
- In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
- After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements, Thomas Arne and his wife, the soprano Cecilia Young, agree to separate.
- Ferdinando Bertoni becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice.
Classical music
- Carl Heinrich Graun - Der Tod Jedu
- Leopold Mozart - Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride"
Opera
- Johann Friedrich Agricola - Il tempio d'amore
- Pierre-Montan Berton - Deucalion et Pyrrha
- Antoine Dauvergne - Les Troqueurs
- Egidio Romualdo Duni - L'Olimpiade
- Carl Heinrich Graun - Montezuma (libretto by King Frederick II of Prussia)
Births
- March 2 - Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, opera composer (died 1799)
- May 12 - Giovanni Battista Viotti (died 1824)
- June 18 - Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1821)
- November 10 - Franz Anton Ries, violinist (died 1846)
- date unknown
- John Christopher Moller, early American composer (died 1803)
- Caroline Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1826)
- Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt, composer (died 1810)
Deaths
- January 11 - Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1705)
- August 13 - Francesco Durante, composer (born 1684)
- October 28 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born 1689)
- November 25 - Johann Georg Pisendel, composer (born 1687)
- December 1 - Maurice Greene, organist and composer (born 1696)
- date unknown
- John Clerk of Penicuik, composer
- Manuel de Zumaya, Mexican composer (born c.1678)
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