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Events
- The first manual on the guitar is published in the English language
- William Boyce becomes organist of the Chapel Royal.
- Giovanni Battista Locatelli takes his opera productions to Russia. Among the members of the troupe are the brothers Giuseppe and Vincenzo Manfredini.
Popular music
- None listed
Opera
- Florian Leopold Gassmann - Issipile
- Christoph Willibald Gluck - L'île de Merlin
Classical music
- Michael Haydn - Symphony No. 1 in C major
Births
- February 7 - Benedikt Schack, operatic tenor and composer (d. 1826)
- August 25 - Franz Teyber, composer
- September 25 - Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841)
- October 7 - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
- December 11 - Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer (died 1832)
- December 31 - Sophie Hagman, ballerina (d. 1826)
Deaths
- March 22 - Richard Leveridge, opera singer (born 1670)
- April 24 - Florian Wrastill, composer
- April 30 - François d'Agincourt, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1684)
- June - John Travers, organist and composer (born 1703)
- October 4 - Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Italian composer and violinist (born c. 1690)
- November 20 - Johan Helmich Roman, composer (born 1694)
- December 5 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (born 1688)
- probable - Sanctus Seraphin, violin-maker (born 1699)
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