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Events
- Leopold Mozart published in Augsburg in the first edition of the Treatise on the Fundamental Violin School. The theoretical work is the Salzburg Prince-Bishop Sigismund III. Dedicated to Christopher Schrattenbach.
- Johann Christian Bach settled in Italy.
Opera
- Pasquale Cafaro - La disfatta di Dario
- Baldassare Galuppi - Idomeneo
- Pieter van Maldere - Le Déguisement pastoral
- Jean -Philippe Rameau - Zoroastre
- Antonio Sacchini - Fra Donato
Instrumental music
- Joseph Haydn - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob XVIII / 1
Born
- JANUARY 22: Vincenzo Righini, Italian composer and singer († 1812)
- January 27: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer († 1791)
- February 9: Karel Blazej Kopřiva, Czech composer († 1785 )
- April 23 ( baptized ): Alexander Reinagle, English - American composer († 1809)
- May 7: Thomas Linley junior, English composer and violinist († 1778)
- 20 June: Joseph Martin Kraus, German - Swedish composer († 1792)
- Mikhail Matveyitch Sokolowski, Russian composer and conductor († 1796 )
Died
- January 25: Christian father, German organ builder (* 1679 )
- April 10: Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian church musician and composer (* 1661)
- April 13: Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German harpsichordist and organist (* 1727)
- OCTOBER 26: Johann Theodor Roemhildt, German composer and cantor (* 1684)
- December 16th: King Balthasar, German organ builder (* 1684)
- Riccardo Broschi, Italian composer ( * ca 1698 )