In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements, Thomas Arne and his wife, the soprano Cecilia Young, agree to separate.
Ferdinando Bertoni becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice.
Carl Heinrich Graun – Der Tod Jesu
Leopold Mozart – Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride"
Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Tod Jesu TWV 5:6
Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il tempio d'amore
Pierre Montan Berton – Deucalion et Pyrrha
Egidio Duni – L'Olimpiade
Carl Heinrich Graun – Montezuma (libretto by King Frederick the Great)
January 16 – Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt, composer (died 1810)
February 5 – Caroline Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1826)
March 2 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, opera composer (died 1799)
May 12 – Giovanni Battista Viotti (died 1824)
June 18 – Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1821)
November 10 – Franz Anton Ries, violinist (died 1846)
November 30 – Agnieszka Truskolaska, opera singer (died 1831)
date unknown - John Christopher Moller, early American composer (died 1803)
January 11 – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1705)
January 19 – Jean-Pierre Christin, scientist and musician (born 1683)
April – Anastasia Robinson, operatic soprano (born c.1692)
June 21 – Giovanni Porta, opera composer (born c.1675)
July 4 – John Cennick, hymn-writer (born 1718)
July 6 – Pietro Paolo Bencini, Italian composer and Kapellmeister (born c.1670)
July 9 – Johann Gottlob Harrer, German composer and choir leader (born 1703)
September 30 – Francesco Durante, composer (born 1684)
October 4 – Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, of Penycuik, composer (born 1676)
October 28 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born 1689)
November 25 – Johann Georg Pisendel, composer (born 1687)
December 1 – Maurice Greene, organist and composer (born 1696)
December 8 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer (born 1680)
date unknown
Alexander Gordon, antiquary and singer (born c.1692)
Manuel de Zumaya, Mexican composer (born c.1678)
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