April 16 Johann Sebastian Bach revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6a) with an additional chorale by Bach himself at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
Thomas Arne enlarges the orchestra at Vauxhall Gardens, taking on John Hebden as principal cellist and bassoonist.
Giovanni Battista Pescetti returns to Venice and becomes Second Organist at St Mark's Basilica.
After 1745 Bach performs the Passion cantata pastiche Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt (BC D 10).
George Frideric Handel – Hercules (oratorio)
Ferdinando Bertoni – La vedova accorta
George Frideric Handel – Comus (based on the masque by John Milton)
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Platée
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Les Muses galantes
Georg Christoph Wagenseil – Ariodante
Louis-Antoine Dornel – Le tour du clavier sur tous les tons
February – Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1815)
May 7 – Carl Stamitz, composer (died 1801)
August 19 – Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer, operatic bass (died 1825)
December 9 – Maddalena Laura Sirmen, violinist, singer and composer (died 1818)
December 25 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "Black Mozart" (died 1799)
date unknown – Sophia Baddeley, actress and singer (died 1786)
February 18 – Nicola Fago, composer and music teacher (born 1677)
March 15 – Michel de la Barre, flautist and composer (born c.1675)
April 27 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, composer (born 1677)
May 9 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, violinist and composer (born 1663)
June 25 – Johann Wilhelm Drese, composer (born 1677)
June 28 – Antoine Forqueray, viola da gamba player and composer (born 1672)
October 24 – Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer (born 1659)
December 6 - Christoph Förster, composer (born 1693)
December 23 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer (born 1679)
date unknown - Charles Coffey, dramatist and composer
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