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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
- 1743–1746 Bach revises his St Matthew Passion (two organs used again, but viola da gamba still retained; recitatives revised so that now only the vox Christi recitatives have sustained continuo parts). No evidence of version being performed (version we know today).
Classical music
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Keyboard Sonata in B minor, H.32.5
- William Boyce – Solomon (serenata)
- Francesco Geminiani – Pièces de clavecin
- Maurice Greene – "Thou visitest the earth" (Song)
- Louis-Gabriel Guillemain – 6 Sonates en quatuors, Op. 12
- George Frideric Handel
- Samson (oratorio, composed 1741–42, premiered 18 February 1732 at Covent Garden in London)
- Semele, HWV 58 (oratorio, composed 3 June to 4 July, not performed until 1744)
- Joseph and His Brethren, HWV 59
- Te Deum in D major, HWV 283
- Organ Concerto in A major, HWV 307
- Johann Ludwig Krebs – 6 Trios, Krebs-WV 317-322
- James Oswald – Colin's Kisses, a set of 12 songs.
- Giovanni Benedetto Platti – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 3
- Giuseppe Sammartini – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3
- Giuseppe Tartini – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 2 (at least two other publications are known as Op. 2, including 6 Violin Sonatas from the same year.)
- Valentin Rathgeber – Pastorellen für die Weihnachtszeit, R 322
Opera
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – Don Quichotte chez la duchesse, Op.97
- Bernard de Bury – Les Caractères de la folie
- Baldassare Galuppi – Enrico
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Demofoonte, Wq.3
- Carl Heinrich Graun – Artaserse
- Johann Adolph Hasse – Antigono
- Niccolò Jommelli – Demofoonte
- Domingo Terradellas – Merope
Publications
- Maurice Greene – 40 Select Anthems in Score
- Jean-Marie Leclair – Quatrième livre de sonates, for violin (two alternatively for flute) and basso continuo, Op. 9 (Paris)
Births
- February 19 – Luigi Boccherini, composer (died 1805)
- May 21 – François Duval, dancer
- July 6 – Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor (died 1804)
- July 14 – Gavrila Derzhavin, poet (died 1816)
- 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)
- December 7 – Johann Joachim Eschenburg, translator (died 1820)
- Date unknown – George Saville Carey, librettist and entertainer (died 1807)
Deaths
- February 1 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (born 1657)
- February 6 – Toussaint Bertin de la Doué, composer (born 1680)
- February 7 – Lodovico Giustini, composer (born 1685)
- March 9 – Jean-Baptiste de Lully, son of Jean-Baptiste Lully (born 1665)
- March 16 – Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer (born 1663)
- July 12 – Johann Bernhard Bach (the younger), organist and composer (born 1700)
- September 14 – Georg von Bertouch, composer (born 1668)