Events in Music
- Feb 2 Thomas Arnes' opera "Artaxerxes" premieres in London
Event of Interest
Jul 10 Louis-François Roubiliac's monument to George Frideric Handel is unveiled at Westminster Abbey in London
George Frideric Handel
- Oct 5 Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck is first produced in Vienna in front of Empress Maria Theresa.
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 20 Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer
- Jan 21 Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
- Feb 19 Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
- Mar 24 Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portuguese opera composer (Portogallo)
- Mar 25 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
- Apr 4 Stephen Storace, English composer, born in London (d. 1796)
- Apr 13 Charles Frederick Horn, English musician and composer, born in Nordhausen, Germany (d. 1830)
- Jun 24 Johann Paul Wessely, Czech composer, born in Frauenberg, Germany (d. 1810)
- Jul 4 Marco Santucci, Italian composer, born in Camaiore, Tuscany, Italy (d. 1843)
- Jul 20 Jakob Haibel, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d.1826)
- Jul 21 William G.F. Bentinck, 3rd Count Bentinck and Lord of Rhoon and Pendrecht
- Aug 10 Santiago Ferrer, composer
- Oct 4 Tommaso Sogner, Italian composer, born in Villa S Pedro Pescador, Gerona (d. 1821)
- Oct 15 Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer, born in Boxford, Massachusetts (d. 1820)
- Dec 26 Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer
Deaths in Music
- Jan 13 Leonhard Trautsch, composer, dies at 68
- Feb 11 Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, dies at 71
- Feb 12 Laurent Belissen, composer, dies at 68
- Apr 23 Johann Samuel Endler, German composer, dies at 67
- May 16 Ernst Christian Hesse, German composer, dies at 86
- May 24 Joseph Umstatt, Austrian composer, dies at 51
- Jun 19 Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer, dies at 60
- Jul 16 Jacques Hotteterre, French composer and flautist, dies at 87
- Jul 20 Christoph Nichelmann, German composer and harpsichordist, dies at 44
- Sep 17 Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 74
- Oct 6 Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, dies at 78