April 30 Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's last St Mark Passion pastiche (BC D 5) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from George Frideric Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 into the work.
Johann Sebastian Bach is presented to King Frederick II of Prussia in Potsdam; the king plays a theme for Bach and challenges the musician to improvise a six-part fugue based on it.
Luigi Boccherini goes to Rome to study the cello.
Maria Teresa Agnesi – Il restauro d'Arcadia (cantata)
Antoine Forqueray – Pièces de viole mises en pièces de clavecin (posthumously published)
George Frideric Handel – Judas Maccabeus (oratorio)
Jean-Philippe Rameau – La Dauphine (harpsichord piece).
Nicola Calandra – Lo Barone Landolfo
Geronimo Cordella – La Faustina
March 29 – Johann Wilhelm Hässler, German organist and composer (died 1822)
March 31 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, musician and composer (died 1800)
June 26 - Leopold Kozeluch, prolific composer and teacher (died 1818)
July 23 – Faustino Arévalo, hymnographer (died 1824)
November 29 – Giovanni Mane Giornovichi, violinist and composer (died 1804)
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Narciso Casanovas, Spanish monk and composer
Michael Ehregott Grose, Danish organist and composer (died 1795)
François Tourte, maker of violin bows (died 1835)
January 2 – Jean-Féry Rebel, violinist and composer (born 1666)
February 2 – Francisco Valls, church composer (born 1665)
February 26 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, musician (born 1713)
June 6 – Jean-Baptiste Barrière, cellist and composer (born 1707)
June 19 – Alessandro Marcello, composer (born 1669)
July 9 – Giovanni Bononcini, composer (born 1670)
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