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Events
- Joseph Haydn marries, but he and his wife will live apart for most of their lives.
- John Newton leaves his job for the church, and begins composing hymns.
- Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frideric Handel, by John Mainwaring, is published anonymously.
- John Alcock is forced to resign as organist and choirmaster of Lichfield Cathedral.
- William Boyce's Eight Symphonies are published by John Walsh (Handel's publisher), having been composed over the previous 21 years as either odes to vocal or stage works or as overtures.
- Johann Christian Bach becomes organist of Milan Cathedral.
- Johann Baptist Vanhal is brought to Vienna to receive lessons from Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.
Popular music
Opera
- Thomas Arne - Thomas and Sally
- Johann Christian Bach - Artaserse
- Johann Adolph Hasse - Alcide al Bivio
- Vincenzo Manfredini - Semiramide
- Jean-Philippe Rameau - Les Surprises de l'amour
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger - String Quartet in D
- William Boyce - Eight Symphonies
- François Joseph Gossec - Grande Messe des Morts
- Michael Haydn - Concerto for Violin in B flat major
Births
- January 10 - Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer (died 1802)
- January 15 - Jean François Lesueur, composer (died 1837)
- January 19 - Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer
- January 30 - Franz Xaver Partsch, composer
- March 27 - Ishmail Spicer, composer
- April 12 - Juan Manuel Olivares, composer
- May 10 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of La Marseillaise (died 1836)
- May 29 - Charlotte Slottsberg, ballerina
- June 14 - Candido Jose Ruano, composer
- September 21 - Gaetano Valeri, composer
- September 14 - Luigi Cherubini, composer (died 1842)
- October 1 - William Thomas Beckford, composer and author (died 1844)
- November 9 - Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
- December 2 - Joseph Graetz, composer
Deaths
- January 18 - Claudio Casciolini, composer
- February 14 - Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
- February 22 - Anna Magdalena Bach, second wife and assistant of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1701)
- March 10 - Christoph Graupner, composer (born 1683)
- March 14 - Anton Fils, composer (born 1733)
- May - Girolamo Abos, composer (born 1715)
- date unknown
- Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (born 1696)
- Pierre Février, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1696)
- Henry Needler, music transcriber (born 1685)
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