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)