Events Composer Christoph Graupner loses his sight. Publication of Giuseppe Tartini's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia. Giovanni Paisiello goes to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studies under Francesco Durante.
Classical music Joseph Anton Xaver Auffmann – Triplex concentus organicus, seu III. concerti organici à octo instrumentis (3 organ concertos), Op. 1 (Augsburg) Michael Festing – Violin Sonatas (published posthumously) François-Joseph Gossec – Symphony No. 1 John Jones – 8 Setts of Lessons for harpsichord (London) Pietro Locatelli – La foresta incantata (ballet) Pietro Domenico Paradisi – 12 Harpsichord Sonatas Joan Baptista Pla and Josep Pla – 6 Trio Sonatas Nicola Porpora 6 duetti latini per la Passione di Gesù Cristo 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 12 John Stanley – Ten Voluntarys for organ or harpsichord, Op. 7 (London)
Opera Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi – Didone Nicola Conforto – Ezio Baldassare Galuppi – Il filosofo di campagna Christoph Willibald Gluck – Le Cinesi, Wq.18 Johann Adolph Hasse – Artemisia Jean-Philippe Rameau Anacréon, RCT 30 La Naissance d'Osiris, RCT 48
Methods and theory writings
Dom Philippe-Joseph Caffiaux – Histoire de la musique depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’en 1754 Michel Corrette – Prototipes contenant des leçons d’accompagnement Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Historisch-Kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik Johann Mattheson – Plus Ultra Jean-Philippe Rameau – Observations sur notre instinct pour la musique, et sur son principe Giuseppe Tartini – Trattato di musica
Births March 15 – Silvestro Palma, opera composer (died 1834) May 2 – Vicente Martín y Soler, composer of opera and ballet (died 1806) May 12 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher (died 1812) June 21 – Caroline Louise von Klencke, librettist and poet (died 1802) July 15 – Jacob French, singing master and composer (died 1817) July 18 – Joseph Siegmund Bachmann, composer and organist (died 1825) August 28 – Peter Winter, opera composer (died 1825) September – Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer (died 1792) December 9 – Étienne Ozi, bassoonist and composer (died 1813)
December 20 – Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer (died 1837) date unknown Hans Gram, organist and composer (died 1804) Michel Yost, composer and clarinetist (died 1786)
Deaths May 16 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer and Kapellmeister (born 1677) June 22 – Nicolas Siret, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1663) October 6 – Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697) probable Mlle Guédon de Presles, singer, composer and actress (date of birth unknown) Seedo, German theatre composer working in Britain (born c.1700)
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