Events
- The Bach-Abel concerts are founded.
- The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra ("Harmonien") is founded.
- First flamenco school established in Spain.
Popular music
- James Hook – "I wish you all good night" (song)
Opera
- Johann Adolph Hasse - "Romolo ed Ersilla"
- Johann Friedrich Agricola – Achille in Sciro, premiered Sept. 16 in Berlin
- Samuel Arnold
- Daphne and Amintor
- The Summer's Tale
- Georg Benda – Xindo riconnosciuto
- Andrea Bernasconi – Semiramide riconosciuta
- Christoph Willibald Gluck –
- Alexandre
- Il Parnaso confuso, Wq.33
- Semiramis
- Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte
- Antonio Sacchini
- La contadina in corte
- Creso
- Tommaso Traetta – Semiramide
Classical music
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – 12 Polonaises, F.12
- Joseph Haydn
- Divertimento in E-flat major, Hob.II:6
- Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:33
- Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:35
- Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:36
- Divertimento in E major, Hob.II:37
- String Trio in B-flat major, Hob.V:B1
- Divertimento in G major, Hob.XIV:13
- Divertimento in D major, Hob.XVI:4
- Keyboard Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI:15 (authorship in question)
- Keyboard Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI:47 (authorship in question)
- Symphony No. 28
- Cello Concerto No. 1
- Johann Ludwig Krebs – Sonata in A minor, Krebs-WV 838
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- "God Is Our Refuge", K.20
- "Conservati fedele", K.23
- Giovanni Marco Rutini – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op.6
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Symphonie zur Serenate, TWV Anh.50:1
- Grillen-Symphonie, TWV 50:1
Publications
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Clavierstücke verschiedener Art (Berlin), Wq.112
- Johann Christian Bach – Six Simphonies, Op. 3 (London)
- Placidus von Camerloher – Sei sonate a tre, due violini e basso (6 Trio Sonatas), Op. 2 (Paris: Le Clerc, Mme Boivin)
- Armand-Louis Couperin – Sonates en pièces de clavecin avec accompagnement de violon ad libitum, Op. 2 (Paris)
- Francesco Guerini – Six Solos (cello sonatas), Op. 9 (London, approximately this year)
Methods and theory writings
- Robert Crome – The Compleat Tutor for the Violoncello
- Pierre Simon Fournier – Traité historique et critique sur l’origine et les progrès des caractères de fonte pour l’impression de la musique
- Georg Simon Löhlein – Klavier-Schule
- Giuseppe Paolucci – Arte pratica di contrappunto
- Michael Johann Friedrich Weideburg – Der sich selbst informirende Clavierspieler
Births
- February 8 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, composer (died 1846)
- June 13 – Anton Eberl, composer (died 1807)
- June 26 – Franz Xaver Kleinheinz, composer (died 1832)
- September 18 – Oliver Holden, composer (died 1844)
- October 7 – Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Polish composer (died 1833)
- October 22 – Daniel Steibelt, pianist and composer (died 1823)
- October 26 – Jakub Jan Ryba, composer (died 1815)
- November 20 – Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer (died 1814)
- November 23 – Thomas Attwood, composer (died 1838)
- December 25 – Joseph Mazzinghi, British composer (died 1844)
- Date unknown – Sofia Liljegren Finnish soprano (died 1795)
Deaths
- January 12 – Johann Melchior Molter, German composer and violinist (born 1696)
- January 15 – Carlmann Kolb, composer (born 1703)
- January 19 – Johan Agrell, composer (born 1701)
- February 9 – Elisabetta de Gambarini, singer, composer and conductor (born 1730)
- March 20 – Paolo Antonio Rolli, librettist (born 1687)
- December 30 – Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, organist and composer (born c. 1691)
- date unknown
- John Hebden, bassoonist, cellist and composer (born 1712)
- Edward Henry Purcell, organist and music publisher
- probable – Louis-Antoine Dornel, harpsichordist, violinist and composer (born c.1685)
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