1754 in music
Appearance
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Events
- Composer Christoph Graupner loses his sight.
- Publication of Giuseppe Tartini's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia.
- Giovanni Paisiello goes to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studies under Francesco Durante.
Classical music
- Michael Festing – Violin Sonatas (published posthumously)
- François-Joseph Gossec – Symphony No. 1
- Pietro Locatelli – La foresta incantata (ballet)
- Pietro Domenico Paradisi – 12 Harpsichord Sonatas
Opera
- Vincenzo Ciampi – Didone
- Baldassare Galuppi – Il filosofo di campagna
- Johann Adolph Hasse – Artemisia
Births
- March 15 – Silvestro Palma, opera composer (died 1834)
- May 2 – Vicente Martín y Soler, composer of opera and ballet (died 1806)
- May 12 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher (died 1812)
- July 15 – Jacob French, singing master and composer (died 1817)
- August 28 – Peter Winter, opera composer (died 1825)
- September – Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer (died 1792)
- November 28 – Ferdinand Ries, composer and friend of Beethoven (died 1838)
- December 9 – Étienne Ozi, bassoonist and composer (died 1813)
- December 20 – Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer (died 1837)
- date unknown – Hans Gram, organist and composer (died 1804)
Deaths
- May 16 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer and Kapellmeister (born 1677)
- June 22 – Nicolas Siret, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1663)
- October 6 – Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697)
- probable
- Mlle Guédon de Presles, singer, composer and actress (date of birth unknown)
- Seedo, German theatre composer working in Britain (born c.1700)