Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits Johann Christian Bach in London.
The castrato Domenico Annibali retires from the stage.
None listed
Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 22 ("Philosopher")
Michael Haydn – Trumpet Concerto
Ignacio de Jerusalem – Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe
Christoph Willibald Gluck – La rencontre imprévue
Pietro Guglielmi – Siroe re di Persia
Andrea Luchesi – L'Isola della Fortuna
Niccolò Piccinni – Gli stravaganti
January 13 – Franz Lauska, Moravian pianist, composer and teacher (died 1825)
March 1 – Jeremiah Ingalls, composer of the First New England School (died 1838)
May 15 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer (died 1827)
September 11 – Valentino Fioravanti, composer (died 1837)
October 21 – János Bihari, Hungarian Romani violinist (died 1827)
November 30 – Franz Xaver Gerl, composer (died 1827)
unknown date
Alexander Campbell, musician and writer (died 1824)
Vincenzo Fabrizi, composer
probable – Jan Šťastný, cellist and composer (died c.1830)
March 30 – Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer (born 1695)
April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German musicologist (born 1681)
September 10 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (born 1690)
September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (born 1683)
October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697)
date unknown
Josep Mir i Llussà, Catalan composer and maestro de capilla (born 1700)
Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, organist and composer, son of Johann Pachelbel (born c.1685)
Lorenzo Zavateri, violinist and composer (born 1690)
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