Composer Christoph Graupner loses his sight.
Publication of Giuseppe Tartini's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia.
Giovanni Paisiello goes to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studies under Francesco Durante.
Michael Festing – Violin sonatas (published posthumously)
François-Joseph Gossec – Symphony No. 1
Pietro Locatelli – La foresta incantata (ballet)
Pietro Domenico Paradisi – 12 sonate de gravicembalo
Vincenzo Ciampi – Didone
Baldassare Galuppi – Il filosofo di campagna
Johann Adolph Hasse – Artemisia
March 15 - Silvestro Palma, opera composer (died 1834)
May 2 – Vicente Martín y Soler, composer of opera and ballet (died 1806)
May 12 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher (died 1812)
July 15 - Jacob French, singing master and composer (died 1817)
August 28 - Peter Winter, opera composer (died 1825)
September - Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer (died 1792)
November 28 – Ferdinand Ries, composer and friend of Beethoven (died 1838)
December 9 - Étienne Ozi, bassoonist and composer (died 1813)
December 20 - Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer (died 1837)
date unknown - Hans Gram, organist and composer (died 1804)
May 16 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer and Kapellmeister (born 1677)
June 22 - Nicolas Siret, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1663)
October 6 - Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697)
probable
Mlle Guédon de Presles, singer, composer and actress (date of birth unknown)
Seedo, German theatre composer working in Britain (born c.1700)
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