Events

Popular music

Johann Adolph Hasse - "Romolo ed Ersilla"
Johann Friedrich Agricola – Achille in Sciro, premiered Sept. 16 in Berlin
Samuel Arnold
- Daphne and Amintor
- The Summer's Tale
Georg Benda – Xindo riconnosciuto
Andrea Bernasconi – Semiramide riconosciuta
Christoph Willibald Gluck –
- Alexandre
- Il Parnaso confuso, Wq.33
- Semiramis
Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte
Antonio Sacchini
- La contadina in corte
- Creso
Tommaso Traetta – Semiramide

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – 12 Polonaises, F.12
Joseph Haydn
- Divertimento in E-flat major, Hob.II:6
- Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:33
- Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:35
- Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:36
- Divertimento in E major, Hob.II:37
- String Trio in B-flat major, Hob.V:B1
- Divertimento in G major, Hob.XIV:13
- Divertimento in D major, Hob.XVI:4
- Keyboard Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI:15 (authorship in question)
- Keyboard Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI:47 (authorship in question)
- Symphony No. 28
- Cello Concerto No. 1
Johann Ludwig Krebs – Sonata in A minor, Krebs-WV 838
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- "God Is Our Refuge", K.20
- "Conservati fedele", K.23
Giovanni Marco Rutini – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op.6
Georg Philipp Telemann
- Symphonie zur Serenate, TWV Anh.50:1
- Grillen-Symphonie, TWV 50:1

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Clavierstücke verschiedener Art (Berlin), Wq.112
Johann Christian Bach – Six Simphonies, Op. 3 (London)
Placidus von Camerloher – Sei sonate a tre, due violini e basso (6 Trio Sonatas), Op. 2 (Paris: Le Clerc, Mme Boivin)
Armand-Louis Couperin – Sonates en pièces de clavecin avec accompagnement de violon ad libitum, Op. 2 (Paris)
Francesco Guerini – Six Solos (cello sonatas), Op. 9 (London, approximately this year)

Robert Crome – The Compleat Tutor for the Violoncello
Pierre Simon Fournier – Traité historique et critique sur l’origine et les progrès des caractères de fonte pour l’impression de la musique
Georg Simon Löhlein – Klavier-Schule
Giuseppe Paolucci – Arte pratica di contrappunto
Michael Johann Friedrich Weideburg – Der sich selbst informirende Clavierspieler

January 12 – Johann Melchior Molter, German composer and violinist (born 1696)
January 15 – Carlmann Kolb, composer (born 1703)
January 19 – Johan Agrell, composer (born 1701)
February 9 – Elisabetta de Gambarini, singer, composer and conductor (born 1730)
March 20 – Paolo Antonio Rolli, librettist (born 1687)
December 30 – Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, organist and composer (born c. 1691)
date unknown
- John Hebden, bassoonist, cellist and composer (born 1712)
- Edward Henry Purcell, organist and music publisher
probable – Louis-Antoine Dornel, harpsichordist, violinist and composer (born c.1685)