1758 in music

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Events

• Publication of the first English language learning guitar book.
• William Boyce was appointed organist of the Chapel Royal.
• Giovanni Battista Locatelli presents his opera compositions in Russia. To his travel squad the brothers Giuseppe and Vincenzo Manfredini belong.

Opera

• Florian Leopold Gassmann - Issipile
• Christoph Willibald Gluck - L' île de Merlin

Instrumental music

• Michael Haydn - Symphony No. 1 in C major, MH 23 ( Perger 35)

Born

• February 7 - Benedikt Schack, Czech tenor and composer († 1826)
• August 25 - Franz Teyber, Austrian composer, organist and conductor († 1810)
• September 25 Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; The Bäsle († 1841)
• Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, Austrian pianist and composer († 1820)

Died

• January 28 - John Paul Schiffelholz, German composer (* 1685)
• March 22 - Richard Leveridge, English bass singer and composer (* 1670 )
• April 30 - François d' Agincourt, French harpsichordist, organist and composer (* 1684)
• June - John Travers, English composer and organist (* 1703)
• October 4 - Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Italian composer and violinist ( * ca 1690)
• November 20 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (* 1694 )
• November 27 - Senesino, Italian castrato (* 1686)
• December 5th - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (* 1688)