Events Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart resigns his position in the Salzburg court. Samuel Arnold becomes musical director of the Haymarket Theatre in London. Über die Theorie der Musik by Johann Nikolaus Forkel is published in Göttingen. Thomas Arne and his wife are reconciled after a separation of over twenty years.
Opera Agostino Accorimboni – Nitteti Luigi de Baillou – Il casino di campagna Domenico Cimarosa L'Armida immaginaria Il fanatico per gli antichi romani I tre amanti Christoph Willibald Gluck – Armide Joseph Haydn – Il mondo della luna Elizabeth Ryves – The Prude
Classical music Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – 4 Keyboard Trios, Wq.91 Johann Christian Bach – 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 13 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach – Flute Sonata No.1 in D major Charles Burney – 4 Sonatas for Keyboard 4-Hands Giuseppe Maria Cambini – 6 Flute Quintets, Op. 8 Michael Haydn – Missa S Hieronymi Gottfried August Homilius – Christmas Oratorio John Keeble – Diapason Movement in F major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 9 ("Jeunehomme") Josef Mysliveček – Isacco figura del redentore (oratorio) Antonio Salieri – La Passione di Gesu Christo Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges – 2 Symphonies concertantes, Op. 9 Carl Stamitz 6 Symphonies, Op. 13 Clarinet Concerto No.2 in B-flat major Johann Baptist Wanhal – Violin Concerto in B-flat major
Popular Music "A-Hunting We Will Go" w.m. Thomas Arne (written for insertion into a London production of The Beggar's Opera and first sung by the contralto Mrs. Farrell playing Captain Macheath (sic.))
Methods and theory writings
Johann Nikolaus Forkel – Über die Theorie der Musik Johann Caspar Heck – The Art of Playing Thorough Bass Valentin Roeser – Gamme et 12 Duo pour la Flûte Traversière
Births January 1 – Micah Hawkins, composer January 3 – Louis Poinsot, instrument maker January 8 – Filippo Traetta, musicologist January 12 – Stepan Davydov, Russian composer (died 1825) April 18 – Ignac Ruzitska, composer May 4 – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer May 8 – Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar, Finnish-Karelian folk singer May 12 – Giovanni Morandi, Italian composer (died 1856) May 28 – Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer June 2 – Christian Traugott Tag, composer September 30 – Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer October 3 – Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina October 6 – William Russell, organist and composer November 5 – Filippo Taglioni, dancer and choreographer December 16 – János Fusz, composer
Deaths January 1 – Emanuele Barbella, composer January 22 – Simon Leduc, composer violinist (born 1742) March 1 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil July 27 – William Hayes, composer (b. 1708) August 17 – Giuseppe Scarlatti, composer August 23 – Giuseppe Sellitti, composer September 1 – Johann Ernst Bach, composer November – Marco Coltellini, opera librettist (b. 1724) November 30 – Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (b. 1703) December 21 – Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, organist (b. 1729)
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