Events

May 5 – French dancer Marie de Camargo made her debut at the Paris Opera Ballet in Les Caractères de la Danse.
October 26 – Women are allowed to be employed at the Kungliga Hovkapellet in Sweden.
The Academy of Ancient Music (formerly the Academy of Vocal Music) is founded in London.
George Frideric Handel becomes a British subject.
Johann Sebastian Bach copies and performs 18 church cantatas written by his cousin, Johann Ludwig Bach.

Classical music

William Babell – 6 Concertos in 7 Parts, Op. 3
Johann Ludwig Bach – Ja, mir hast du Arbeit gemacht, JLB 5
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13
- Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 19
- Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen, BWV 32
- Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35
- Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39
- Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43
- Ich geh' und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49
- Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht, BWV 52
- Siehe, ich will viel Fischer aussenden, BWV 88
- Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 98
- Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV 102
- Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 1
- Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV 228
- 6 Partitas, BWV 825-830, Nos. 1 and 2
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
- Trio Sonatas, Op. 12
- 6 Sonatas for 2 Bassoons, Op. 14
Antonio Caldara – Gioseffo che interpreta i sogni
François Couperin
- L'Apothéose de Corelli
- Les Nations
Henri Desmarets – Adorate eum omnes angeli ejus
Andre Cardinal Destouches – Les Stratagèmes de l'amour (Ballet)
Francesco Geminiani – 12 Concerti Grossi after Corelli's Violin Sonatas
Benedetto Marcello – Estro poetico-armonico (expanded the 1724 version)
Nicola Porpora – Imeneo in Atene (Serenade)
Domenico Scarlatti - Fugue du chat
Giovanni Battista Somis – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4
Antonio Vivaldi – La Sena festeggiante, RV 693
Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Missa Paschalis, ZWV 7
- Missa Nativitatis Domini, ZWV 8
- Nisi Dominus, ZWV 92

Opera

Francisco Antonio de Almeida – La Giuditta
Tomaso Albinoni – La Statira
Pietro Auletta – La Carlotta
Francesco Ciampi – Lucio Vero
François Francoeur and François Rebel – Pirame et Thisbé
George Frideric Handel
- Alessandro, HWV 21
- Publio Cornelio Scipione, HWV 20
Johann Adolph Hasse – Astarto
Giovanni Battista Martini – Azione teatrale
Nicola Porpora – Meride e Selinunte
Domenico Sarro – Valdemaro
Georg Caspar Schürmann - Ludovicus Pius
Georg Philipp Telemann – Orpheus oder Die wunderbare Beständigkeit der Liebe, Premiered Mar. 9 in Hamburg
Leonardo Vinci
- Didone abbandonata
- L'Ernelinda
- Gismondo, re di Polonia
- Siroe, re di Persia
Antonio Vivaldi
- Cunegonda
- Dorilla in Tempe, RV 709
- La fede tradita e vendicata, RV 712

Published popular music

"Sally in Our Alley" w.m. Henry Carey. The music played today is an earlier traditional tune.

Theoretical publications

Jakob Adlung – Musica mechanica organoedi
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Nouveau système de musique théorique

Births

March – Joseph Anton Steffan, harpsichordist and composer (died 1797)
April 12 – Charles Burney, music historian (died 1814)
August 26 – Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer (died 1784)
September 1 – Johann Becker, organist and composer (died 1803)
September 7 – François-André Danican Philidor, composer and chess player
December 24 – Johann Hartmann, composer (died 1793)

Deaths

January 2 – Domenico Zipoli, composer and Jesuit missionary (born 1688)
May 13 – Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, singer, composer and librettist (born 1659)
June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, composer (born 1657)
July 8 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, cellist and composer (born 1677)