Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart resigns his position in the Salzburg court.
Samuel Arnold becomes musical director of the Haymarket Theatre in London.
Über die Theorie der Musik by Johann Nikolaus Forkel is published in Göttingen.
Thomas Arne and his wife are reconciled after a separation of over twenty years.
Agostino Accorimboni – Nitteti
Luigi de Baillou – Il casino di campagna
Christoph Willibald Gluck – Armide
Joseph Haydn – Il mondo della luna
Michael Haydn – Missa S Hieronymi
Gottfried August Homilius – Christmas Oratorio
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 ("Jeunehomme")
Josef Mysliveček – Isacco figura del redentore (oratorio)
Antonio Salieri - La Passione di Gesu Christo
Johann Baptist Wanhal – Violin Concerto in B flat
"A-Hunting We Will Go" w.m. Thomas Arne (written for insertion into a London production of The Beggar's Opera and first sung by the contralto Mrs. Farrell playing Captain Macheath (sic.))
January 1 – Micah Hawkins, composer
January 3 – Louis Poinsot, instrument maker
January 8 – Filippo Traetta, musicologist
April 18 – Ignac Ruzitska, composer
May 4 – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
May 8 – Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar, Finnish-Carelian Folksinger
May 28 – Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
June 2 – Christian Traugott Tag, composer
September 30 – Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
October 3 - Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina
October 6 - William Russell, organist and composer
November 5 – Filippo Taglioni, dancer and choreographer
December 16 – János Fusz, composer
January 1 – Emanuele Barbella, composer
March 1 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil
July 27 – William Hayes, composer (b. 1708)
August 17 – Giuseppe Scarlatti, composer
August 23 – Giuseppe Sellitti, composer
September 1 – Johann Ernst Bach, composer
November – Marco Coltellini, opera librettist (b. 1724)
November 30 – Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (b. 1703)
December 21 – Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, organist (b. 1729)
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