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Events
- Luigi Boccherini goes to Madrid as the court chamber music composer to the Infante Don Luis.
- Wenzel Pichl becomes musical director for Count Ludwig Hartig in Prague
- 14-year-old Mozart hears Allegri's Miserere for the first time, returns home and copies it down note for note.
- Charles Burney receives an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Oxford.
- Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini arrives in Venice.
Opera
- Jean-François Caillhava - Les Etrenes de l'amour
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger - Concerto for Trombone in B flat major
- Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach - Die Israeliten in der Wüste (oratorio)
- François Joseph Gossec - Sei quartetti per flauto e violino o sia per due violini, alto e basso, op. 14
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Te Deum in C
- Johann Baptist Vanhal - Quartet for Strings in B flat major, Op. 2 no 3
Births
- January 17 - Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer
- March 7 - Josef Alois Ladurner, composer
- March 25 - Salvatore Viganò, composer
- April 11 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer
- April 12 - Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer
- May 4 - Charles Hague, composer
- June 14 - Dominique Della-Maria, composer
- June 1 - Joseph Elsner, Chopin's future teacher
- July 4 - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer
- July 23 - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
- August 14 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist
- August 16 - Jean Aime Vernier, composer
- August 18 - Alexandre Stievenard, composer
- August 30 - Bonifacio Asioli, composer
Deaths
- March 27 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
- September - Henri Hemsch, harpsichord maker (b. 1700)
- unknown date - James Oswald, composer
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