January 10 - King Louis XV of France banishes Eustachio Bambini and his Italian opera company from Paris.
May 1 - George Frideric Handel plays the organ in public for the last time, at the Foundling Hospital, London.
June 15 - Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in Schwetzingen Palace, Baden-Württemberg, designed by Nicolas de Pigage, is inaugurated with a performance of Ignaz Holzbauer's opera Il figlio delle selve.
October 12 - Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residenz, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is inaugurated with a performance of Ferrandini's opera Catone in Utica.
November 21 - Niccolò Jommelli is appointed music director and Oberkapellmeister to Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, at Stuttgart.
Teatro Carignano in Turin is inaugurated with a performance of Baldassare Galuppi's opera Calamità de' cuori.
Grand Théâtre in Antwerp is inaugurated.
Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach publishes his treatise, Versuch, including instructions for improvisation.
Georg Philipp Telemann - Fürchtet den Herrn und dienet ihm treulich (oratorio)
Maria Agnesi – Ciro in Armenia
Antoine Dauvergne – Les troqueurs
Johann Adolf Hasse - Solimano
Niccolò Jommelli - Attilio Regolo, with libretto by Metastasio
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Daphnis et Eglé
June 8 - Nicolas Dalayrac, composer of opéra-comique (died 1809)
September 29 - Johann Gottfried Schicht, conductor and composer (died 1823)
November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval, cellist and composer (died 1823)
November 30 – Johann Baptist Schenk, composer (died 1836)
December 28 - Johan Wikmanson, organist and composer (died 1800)
February 7 - Giovanni Alberto Ristori, opera composer and conductor, 60
February 16 – Giacomo Facco, violinist, conductor and composer, 77
May 19 – Jacques Aubert, composer, 63
August 4 – Gottfried Silbermann, German constructor of keyboard instruments, 70
September 24 – Georg Gebel (the younger), composer, 43
November - Giuseppe Valentini, violinist, painter, poet, and composer, 71
November 4 - Johann Nicolaus Bach, organist and composer, eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach, 84
November 16 - Nicolas Racot de Grandval, harpsichordist and composer, 77
unknown date - John Holt, bell-ringer and composer, 27
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