1755 in music
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[edit] Events
- In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
- After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements, Thomas Arne and his wife, the soprano Cecilia Young, agree to separate.
- Ferdinando Bertoni becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice.
[edit] Classical music
- Carl Heinrich Graun – Der Tod Jesu
- Leopold Mozart – Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride"
- Georg Philipp Telemann - Der Tod Jesu TWV 5:6
[edit] Opera
- Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il tempio d'amore
- Pierre-Montan Berton – Deucalion et Pyrrha
- Egidio Romualdo Duni – L'Olimpiade
- Carl Heinrich Graun – Montezuma (libretto by King Frederick II of Prussia)
[edit] Births
- March 2 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, opera composer (died 1799)
- May 12 – Giovanni Battista Viotti (died 1824)
- June 18 – Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1821)
- November 10 – Franz Anton Ries, violinist (died 1846)
- date unknown
- John Christopher Moller, early American composer (died 1803)
- Caroline Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1826)
- Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt, composer (died 1810)
- Agnieszka Truskolaska, opera singer (died 1831)
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1705)
- April – Anastasia Robinson, operatic soprano (born c. 1692)
- August 13 – Francesco Durante, composer (born 1684)
- October 28 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born 1689)
- November 25 – Johann Georg Pisendel, composer (born 1687)
- December 1 – Maurice Greene, organist and composer (born 1696)
- December 8 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer (born 1680)
- date unknown
- John Clerk of Penicuik, composer
- Manuel de Zumaya, Mexican composer (born c.1678)
