Classical music

• Johann Friedrich Fasch
  Johann Friedrich Fasch
  Johann Friedrich Fasch was a German violinist and composer.Fasch was born in Buttelstedt, was a choirboy in Weissenfels and studied under Johann Kuhnau at the famous St. Thomas School in Leipzig and later founded a Collegium Musicum in that city...
  
   – Serenata Fwv B: 4 \ Beglückter Tag (writtenfor the birthday of Catherine the Great)
• Leopold Mozart
  Leopold Mozart
  Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.-Childhood and student years:He was born in Augsburg, son of...
  
   – Concerto for Trombone in G major

Opera

• Florian Leopold Gassmann
  Florian Leopold Gassmann
  Florian Leopold Gassmann was a German-speaking Bohemian opera composer of the transitional period between the baroque and classical eras. He was one of the principal composers of dramma giocoso immediately before Mozart....
  
   — Merope
• Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi
  Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi
  Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi was an Italian opera composer.Guglielmi was born in Massa. He received his first musical education from his father, and afterwards studied under Francesco Durante at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto at Naples...
  
   — Lo solachianello imbroglione
• Niccolò Jommelli
  Niccolò Jommelli
  Niccolò Jommelli was an Italian composer. He was born in Aversa and died in Naples. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he made important changes to opera and reduced the importance of star singers.-Early life:Jommelli was born to Francesco Antonio Jommelli and...
  
   — Temistocle
• Giuseppe Scarlatti
  Giuseppe Scarlatti
  Giuseppe Scarlatti was a composer of opere serie and opere buffe. He worked in Rome from 1739 to 1741, and from 1752 to 1754 in Florence, Pisa, Lucca and Turin. From 1752 to 1754, and again from 1756 to 1759, he worked in Venice and for short periods in Milan and Barcelona...
  
   — La clemenza di Tito

Births

• April 22 – Alessandro Rolla
  Alessandro Rolla
  Alessandro Rolla was widely acknowledged in his time as a violin and, especially, viola virtuoso, composer and teacher. His contribution to technique, repertoire and history of music is greatly underestimated...
  
  , violinist, composer and music teacher (died 1841)
• June 18 – Ignaz Pleyel
  Ignaz Pleyel
  Ignace Joseph Pleyel , ; was an Austrian-born French composer and piano builder of the Classical period.-Early years:...
  
  , composer and piano-maker (died 1831)

Deaths

• March 27 – Johann Stamitz
  Johann Stamitz
  Jan Václav Antonín Stamic was a Czech composer and violinist. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers...
  
  , violinist and composer (born 1717)
• July 23 – Domenico Scarlatti
  Domenico Scarlatti
  Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
  
  , composer (born 1685)
• August 11 – Jose Pradas Gallen, composer
• September 28 – Andrea Zani
  Andrea Zani
  Andrea Teodoro Zani was an Italian violinist and composer.-Life:Zani was born at Casalmaggiore in the Province of Cremona. He received his first instruction in playing the violin from his father, an amateur violinist...
  
  , violinist and composer (born 1696) (carriage accident)
• October 11 – Zacharias Hildebrandt
  Zacharias Hildebrandt
  Zacharias Hildebrandt was an organ builder, born in Münsterberg, Silesia. In 1714 his father, a cartwright master, apprenticed him to Gottfried Silbermann in Freiberg. In 1721 Hildebrandt finished his masterpiece, the organ of the Nikolaikirche Langhennersdorf...
  
  , organ builder (born 1688)
• November 8 – Pierre Prowo, composer
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  • Lodovico Filippo Laurenti, composer (born 1693)
  • Balthasar Siberer
    Balthasar Siberer
    Balthasar Siberer was an Austrian-born German gymnasium teacher, known for having been an early organ instructor of both Johann Ernst Eberlin and Leopold Mozart....
    
    , organ teacher (born 1679)
• probable – Jean-Baptiste Masse
  Jean-Baptiste Masse
  Jean Baptiste Masse was a French composer and violoncello player.He was an Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roi and a member of the King's Bande of Twenty-Four Violins and of the orchestra of the Comédie Française....
  
  , cellist and composer (born c. 1700)