Johann Friedrich Agricola succeeds Carl Heinrich Graun as director of Frederick the Great's royal opera.
Castrato Gaspare Pacchierotti makes his debut at the Perugia carnival, in a female role.
Tommaso Traetta becomes court composer at Parma.
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Johann Ernst Eberlin – Demofoonte (lost)
Florian Leopold Gassmann – Gli uccellatori
Christoph Willibald Gluck – L'Arbre enchantée; Cythère Assiégée
Tommaso Traetta – Ippolito ed Aricia
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Pieces for Musical Clock
François Joseph Gossec – Sei sinfonie a più stromenti, op.4
Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 1 in D Major
January 25 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist (died 1796)
January 31 – François Devienne, composer (died 1803)
April 18 - Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist (died 1823)
15 May – Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer (died 1824)
19 July – Marianna Auenbrugger, composer (died 1782)
November 27 – Franz Krommer, composer (died 1831)
unknown date – William Matthews of Nottingham, composer
April 14 – George Frideric Handel, composer (born 1685)
June 22 – Louis de Cahusac, librettist (born 1706)
July 25 – Johann Christoph Altnickol, organist, singer and composer (born 1719)
August 8 – Carl Heinrich Graun, composer (born 1704)
September 4 – Girolamo Chiti, composer
date unknown - Gustavus Waltz, singer
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