1754 in music

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Events

  • Composer Christoph Graupner loses his eyesight.
  • 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 studied under Francesco Durante.

Opera

  • Vincenzo Ciampi - Didone
  • Johann Adolph Hasse - Artemisia

Instrumental music

  • Michael Christian Festing - Violin Sonatas ( posthumously published )
  • François -Joseph Gossec - Symphony No. 1
  • Pietro Locatelli - La foresta incantata ( ballet )
  • Pietro Domenico Paradisi - 12 sonate de gravicembalo

Born

  • February 26 - Josef Karel Ambroz, Czech tenor and composer († 1822)
  • March 15 - Silvestro Palma, Italian composer († 1834)
  • April 9 - František Antonín Bečvařovský, Czech organist, pianist and composer († 1823)
  • May 2 - Vicente Martín y Soler, Spanish composer († 1806)
  • May 12 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister, German composer and music publisher († 1812)
  • July 15 - Jacob French, American composer and singers († 1817)
  • July 31 - Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee, German hymn writer († 1821)
  • August 28 ( baptized ) - Peter von Winter, German composer, singing teacher and conductor († 1825)
  • September 7 - Elizabeth Ann Linley, English singer; Daughter of Thomas Linley senior († 1792)
  • November 28 - Ferdinand Ries, German composer, pianist and orchestra leader († 1838)
  • December 9 - Etienne Ozi, French bassoonist and composer († 1813)
  • December 20 - Joseph Schubert, German violinist, violist and composer († 1837)
  • Unknown Hans Gram, Danish- American organist and composer († 1804)
  • Johann Christoph Kaffka, German composer, violinist and opera singers († 1815)

Died

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