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Events

• Publication of the first English-language manual on the guitar.^{[full citation needed]}
• William Boyce becomes organist of the Chapel Royal.
• Giovanni Battista Locatelli takes his opera productions to Russia. Among the members of the troupe are the brothers Giuseppe and Vincenzo Manfredini.

Popular music

• None listed

Opera

• Baldassare Galuppi – Il Mondo alla Roversa
• Florian Leopold Gassmann – Issipile
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – 'L'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renversé
• Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – Les fêtes de Paphos, Op.10
• Davide Perez – Solimano
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – La Lyre enchantée
• Tommaso Traetta – Buovo d'Antona
• Johann Adolph Hasse
  • Il Sogno di Scipione
  • Demofoonte

Classical music

• Charles Avison – Twelve Concertos, Op. 6 (London and Newcastle)
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Fugue in D minor, H.99
  • Sechs Sonaten für Clavier mit veränderten Reprisen, Wq.50 (H. 126, 136–140) (begun, completed 1759, published 1760)
  • Keyboard Sonata in A major, H.133
  • 12 Kleine Stücke, H. 600, Wq. 81
  • Geistliche Oden und Lieder I (Leipzig), H.686 (composed 1757)
• Franz Ignaz Beck – 6 Symphonies, Op. 1
• William Boyce – Overture No.7
• Giacomo Cervetto – 6 Trio Sonatas
• Baldassare Galuppi – L'oracolo del Vaticano
• Francesco Geminiani – The Harmonical Miscellany (periodical, in two volumes, London)
• Michael Haydn
  • Symphony No. 1 in C major
  • Divertimento in C major, MH 27
• Pieter Hellendaal – 6 Concerti Grossi, Op. 3
• Johann Philipp Kirnberger – 8 Fugues (written for Prussian Princess Anna Amalia)
• Johann Adolph Scheibe – 3 Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Laudate Jehovam, TWV 7:25

Methods and theory writings

• Jakob Adlung – Anleitung zu der musikalischen Gelahrtheit
• François Clément – Essai sur l'accompagnement du clavecin
• Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Anleitung zur Singcomposition

Births

• February 1 – Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten, librettist and poet (died 1818)
• February 4 – Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, choreographer and ballet dancer (died 1840)
• February 7 – Benedikt Schack, operatic tenor and composer (d. 1826)
• February 12 – Christian Ignatius Latrobe, music collector and composer (died 1836)
• April 23 – Matthieu Frédéric Blasius, composer and violinist (died 1829)
• May 25 – Matthew Camidge, composer and organist (died 1844)
• June 4 – Joseph Dacre Carlyle, librettist and orientalist (died 1804)
• June 30 – António Leal Moreira, composer (died 1819)
• July – Nicolas-Julien Forgeot, French librettist (died 1798)
• August 25 – Franz Teyber, composer
• September 25
  • Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841)
  • Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, pianist and composer
• October 5
  • Thomas Greatorex, music collector and organist (died 1831)
  • August Heinrich Julius Lafontaine, librettist and novelist (died 1831)
• October 7 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
• November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, librettist and author (died 1841)
• December 3
  • Louis Adam, French composer (died 1848)
  • Joseph Gelinek, composer and pianist (died 1825)
• December 11 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer and editor (died 1832)
• December 31 – Sophie Hagman, ballerina (d. 1826)
• Date unknown
  • Harriett Abrams, composer and musician (died 1821)
  • Glafira Alymova, harpsichordist (d. 1826)
  • Josep Gallés, composer and organist (died 1836)
  • Bernardo Porta, Italian composer (died 1829)
  • John Sale, composer and bass singer (died 1827)

Deaths

• January 28 – Johann Paul Schiffelholz, composer for the mandora (born 1685)
• March 22 – Richard Leveridge, opera singer (born 1670)
• April 2 – Johann Balthasar König, German composer (born 1691)
• April 24 – Florian Wrastill, composer
• April 30 – François d'Agincourt, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1684)
• June – John Travers, organist and composer (born 1703)
• July 15 – Ambrosius Stub, librettist and poet (born 1705)
• October 4 – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Italian composer and violinist (born c. 1690)
• October 14 – Wilhelmine Von Bayreuth, composer and princess (born 1709)
• November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, composer (born 1694)
• November 27 – Senesino, castrato singer (born 1686)
• December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (born 1688)
• December 26 – François-Joseph de La Grange-Chancel, librettist and dramatist (born 1677)
• probable
  • Sanctus Seraphin, violin-maker (born 1699)
  • Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio, Italian composer (born 1699)