Antonio Salieri is appointed court composer to the Emperor Joseph II.
Domenico Cimarosa is invited to Rome for the opera season.
Charles Burney writes A Plan for a Music School.
Pascal Taskin becomes keeper of the King's instruments.
Georg Joseph Vogler becomes a pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini at Bologna.
Pasquale Anfossi – La finta giardiniera; Olimpiade
Christoph Willibald Gluck – Iphigenie en Aulide
Joseph Haydn – Great Organ Mass
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 29 in A
Carl Stamitz – Concerto for Viola no 1 in D major
January 24 – Karl Moser, composer
February 16 – Pierre Rode, violinist, composer, (d. 1830)
March 5 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
April 17 – Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek, organist and composer
October 7 – Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
November 14 – Gaspare Spontini, composer
November 18 – William Horsley, composer
December 20 – Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes, composer
January 20 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, 44
January 30 – Frantisek Tuma, composer, 69
July 7 – Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer
August 25 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer, 59
December 2 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer, 54
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Vodicka Vaclav
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