Francesco Geminiani visits Dublin, where he is robbed of a valuable manuscript.
Domenico Cimarosa enters the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto.
Joseph Haydn enters the service of the Esterházy family
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Charles-Guillaume Alexandre – George et Georgette
Florian Leopold Gassmann – Catone in Utica
Baldassare Galuppi – Le Tre Amante Ridicoli
Thomas Arne – Judith (oratorio)
Christoph Willibald Gluck – Don Juan (ballet)
François Joseph Gossec – Sei sinfonie a più stromenti, op.5
Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 6 ("Le matin"), Symphony No. 7 ("Le midi") and Symphony No. 8 ("Le soir")
Michael Haydn – Symphony in C major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Minuet for Harpsichord
January 20 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer (died 1825)
January 22 – Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, biographer of Mozart (died 1826)
January 26 – Jens Zetlitz, songwriter (died 1821)
February 15 – Jacob Kimball, Jr., composer (died 1826)
February 20 – Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille, pianist and composer
February 22 – Erik Tulindberg, composer (died 1814)
April 20 – Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer
June 13 – Antonín Vranický or Wranitzky, violinist and composer (died 1820)
July 20 – Joseph Lefebvre, composer
September 4 – F.L.Æ. Kunzen, composer
date unknown – John Andrew Stevenson, composer (died 1833)
January 3 – Willem de Fesch, violinist and composer (born 1687)
January 18 – Francesco Feo, opera composer (born 1691)
February 15 – Carlo Cecere, composer (born 1706)
March 7 – Antonio Palella, composer
March 27 – Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer
April 10 – Cecilia Elisabeth Würzer, German-Swedish singer
June 12 – Meinrad Spiess, composer
July 9 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, organist (born 1704)
date unknown
Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697)
Newburgh Hamilton, librettist (born 1691)
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