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Events
- January 18 - Carl Stenborg, Elisabeth Olin and Hedvig Wigert star in Thetis and Phelée, the inaugural production of the Royal Swedish Opera.
- February - Joseph Leutgeb tours Italy with Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart goes to Vienna in search of work.
- James Hook vacates his post at Marylebone Gardens.
Opera
- Pasquale Anfossi - Demofoonte
- Domenico Cimarosa - La finta parigina
- Joseph Haydn - L'infedeltà delusa; Philemon und Baucis
- Andrea Luchesi - L'Inganno Scoperto, overo Il Conte Caramella (libretto by Carlo Goldoni)
- Anton Schweitzer - Alceste (libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland)
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger - Concerto for Harp in C major
- Samuel Arnold - The Prodigal Son (oratorio)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 25 in G minor
- Giovanni Battista Sammartini - Six String Quintets
Births
- January 4 - Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer
- February 2 - Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek, composer
- March 4 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
- March 7 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer
- April 8 - Josephina Grassini, soprano
- May 26 - Hans Georg Nageli, composer
- June 3 - Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
- July 6 - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
- July 23 - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
- August 25 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer
- September 24 - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
- October 23 - Pietro Generali, composer
- December 9 - Marianne Ehrenström, Musician and writer
- December 24 - Joseph Wölfl, pianist and composer
- exact date unknown - Edward Bunting, Irish folk song collector
- Inga Åberg, opera singer and actress
Deaths
- April 11 - Carlo Grua, composer (b. c. 1700)
- April 12 - Elizabeth Young, operatic contralto and actress (b. c. 1730)
- May 24 - Jan Zach, violinist, organist and composer (b. 1699)
- July 12 - Johann Joachim Quantz, flautist and composer (b. 1697)
- date unknown
- Francis Hutcheson (songwriter) (b. c. 1722)
- Joan Baptista Pla, oboist and composer (b. c. 1720)
- Hester Santlow, "England's first ballerina" (b. c. 1690)
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