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Events
- Johann Sebastian Bach examines the organ at the Johanniskirche, Leipzig
- March 23 - English premiere of Handel's Messiah in London
Classical music
- George Frideric Handel
- Samson (oratorio)
- Semele (oratorio)
Opera
- Bernard de Bury - Les Caractères de la folie
- Baldassare Galuppi - Enrico
Births
- February 19 - Luigi Boccherini, composer (died 1805)
- May 21 - François Duval, dancer
- July 6 (probable) - Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor (died 1804)
- September 30 - Christian Ehregott Weinlig, cantor and composer (died 1813)
- October 5 - Giuseppe Gazzaniga, composer (died 1818)
- October 10 - Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (died 1816)
Deaths
- February 1 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (born 1657)
- February 7, Lodovico Giustini, composer (born 1685)
- March 16 - Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer (born 1663)
- July 12 - Johann Bernhard Bach (the younger), organist and composer (born 1700)