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Overview of the events of 1750 in music
Events
Classical music
- 1750 is commonly used to mark the end of the Baroque period
- Leopold Mozart – Partita for Violin, Cello and Double Bass ("Frog")
Opera
Births
Deaths
- January 4 – Christoph Schütz, German music publisher (born 1689)
- January 29 – Sophia Schröder, Swedish soprano at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (born 1712)
- February 22 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian organist, choirmaster and composer (born 1679)
- March 6 – Domenico Montagnana, Italian luthier (born 1686)
- June 2 – Valentin Rathgeber, German composer (born 1682)
- July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (born 1685)
- August – John Tufts, American music teacher (born 1689)
- September 15 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-born organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1690)
- October 3 – Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer (born 1717)
- October 16 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lutenist and composer (born 1687)
- November – Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian-born oboist and composer (born 1695)
- November 15 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (born 1668)
- date unknown – Francesco Goffriller, Italian violin maker (born 1692)