Luigi Boccherini goes to Madrid as the court chamber music composer to the Infante Don Luis.
Wenzel Pichl becomes musical director for Count Ludwig Hartig in Prague
14-year-old Mozart hears Allegri's Miserere for the first time, returns home and copies it down note for note.
Charles Burney receives an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Oxford.
Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini arrives in Venice.
James Hook eis appointed composer to Marylebone Gardens.
Jean-François Cailhava – Les Etrenes de l'amour
Christoph Willibald von Gluck - Le feste d'Apollo
André Grétry - Lucile
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny - Le déserteur
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - La finta semplice
Josef Mysliveček - Demofoonte
Johann Albrechtsberger – Concerto for Trombone in B flat major
Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach – Die Israeliten in der Wüste (oratorio)
François Joseph Gossec – Sei quartetti per flauto e violino o sia per due violini, alto e basso, op. 14
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Te Deum in C
Johann Baptist Wanhal – Quartet for Strings in B flat major, Op. 2 no 3
March 8 - Katerina Veronika Anna Dusíkova, Bohemian singer, harpist, pianist and composer (died 1833)
March 25 – Salvatore Viganò, choreographer, dancer and composer (died 1821)
June 5 – Marianne Kirchgessner, German musician (d. 1808)
April 11 – Johann Georg Lickl, organist and composer (died 1843)
April 25 - Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor (died 1827)
June 1 – Józef Elsner, composer and music teacher, Chopin's future teacher (died 1854)
July 4 – Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1819)
July 23 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer (died 1827)
August 14 – Friedrich Dülon, flautist (died 1826)
September 12 - Reginald Spofforth, organist, conductor and composer (died 1827)
Date unknown – Charles Hague, composer (died 1821)
January 2 - James Oswald, composer, 57
September – Henri Hemsch, harpsichord maker, 69
December 6 - William Felton, composer, 56
date unknown - Antonio Palomba, Italian opera librettist, poet, harpsichordist, and music educator, 63
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