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Events
- Johann Christian Bach composing for the King's Theatre in London; here he meets Carl Friedrich Abel for the first time.
- Michael Haydn moves to Salzburg, to become Konzertmeister to the Archbishop.
- Death of Le Riche de La Pouplinière, patron of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Stamitz and François-Joseph Gossec.
- Antonio Soler publishes his treatise on modulation: Llave de la modulación.
Popular music
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger - Passione Domini
- Joseph Haydn - Symphony no 9
- Leopold Mozart - Sacrament Litany in D
- Georg Philipp Telemann - Christmas Oratorio
Opera
- Thomas Arne - Artaxerxes
- Christoph Willibald Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice
- Johann Gottlieb Naumann - Il tesoro insidiato
Births
- January 20 - Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer (died )1842
- January 21 - Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
- February 19 - Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
- March 24 - Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer
- March 25 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
- April 4 - Stephen Storace, composer (died 1796)
- April 13 - Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
- June 24 - Johann Paul Wessely, composer
- July 4 - Marco Santucci, composer
- July 20 - Jakob Haibel, composer
- August 10 - Santiago Ferrer, composer
- October 15 - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer (died 1820)
- December 26 - Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer
- unknown date - Christina Fredenheim, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1841)
- Giovanna Bassi, ballet dancer
- Anine Frölich, ballet dancer
Deaths
- January 13 - Leonhard Trautsch, composer
- February 11 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer (born 1690)
- February 12 - Laurent Belissen, composer (born 1693)
- April 23 - Johann Samuel Endler, composer
- May 16 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
- June 19 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (born 1702)
- July 16 - Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (born 1674)
- July 20 - Christoph Nichelsmann, klavecinist and composer
- September 17 - Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer (born 1687)
- October 6 - Francesco Manfredini, composer (born 1684)
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