Johann Christian Bach composing for the King's Theatre in London; here he meets Carl Friedrich Abel for the first time.
Michael Haydn moves to Salzburg, to become Konzertmeister to the Archbishop.
Death of Le Riche de La Pouplinière, patron of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Stamitz and François-Joseph Gossec.
Antonio Soler publishes his treatise on modulation: Llave de la modulación.
The first public concert with a glass harmonica is performed by Marianne Davies.
Johann Albrechtsberger – Passione Domini
Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 9
Leopold Mozart – Sacrament Litany in D
Georg Philipp Telemann – Christmas Oratorio
Thomas Arne – Artaxerxes
Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice
Johann Gottlieb Naumann – Il tesoro insidiato
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny – Le Roi et le Fermier
January 20 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer (died )1842
January 21 – Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
February 19 – Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
March 13 – Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (d. 1784)
March 24 – Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer
March 25 – Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
April 4 – Stephen Storace, composer (died 1796)
April 13 – Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
June 24 – Johann Paul Wessely, composer
July 4 – Marco Santucci, composer
July 20 – Jakob Haibel, composer
August 10 – Santiago Ferrer, composer
October 15 – Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer (died 1820)
December 26 – Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer
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Giovanna Bassi, ballet dancer
Christina Fredenheim, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1841)
January 13 – Leonhard Trautsch, composer
February 11 – Johann Tobias Krebs, composer (born 1690)
February 12 – Laurent Belissen, composer (born 1693)
April 23 – Johann Samuel Endler, composer
May 16 – Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
June 19 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (born 1702)
July 5 – Jakob Adlung, organist, instrument maker, music theorist and historian (born 1699)
July 16 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (born 1674)
July 20 – Christoph Nichelmann, harpsichordist and composer (born 1717)
September 17 – Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer (born 1687)
October 6 – Francesco Manfredini, composer (born 1684)
November 25 – Jacques-Christophe Naudot, flautist and composer (born c.1690)
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