1750 in music

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Events

May 1 – George Frideric Handel begins the tradition of benefit performances of his oratorio Messiah at and for the Foundling Hospital in London.
Farinelli is knighted by King Ferdinand VI of Spain.
Ten-year-old Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf begins playing with the Viennese Schottenkirche orchestra.
Bach dictates Chorale preludes BWV 666 and 667 to pupil and son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnikol. These are then added to the manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes (BWV 668 is added posthumously).

1750 is commonly used to mark the end of the Baroque period
Leopold Mozart – Partita for Violin, Cello and Double Bass ("Frog")
Niccolò Pasquali – XII English songs in score. Collected from several masques and other entertainments... (London)

January 25 – Johann Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer (died 1813)
March 23 – Johannes Matthias Sperger, Austrian contrabassist and composer (died 1812)
August 18 – Antonio Salieri, Italian-born composer (died 1825)
November – Anton Stamitz, German composer (died c.1805)
date unknown – Mikhail Matinsky, Russian mathematician, librettist and opera composer (died c. 1820)
probable – Antonio Rosetti, born Franz Anton Rösler, Bohemian-born composer (died 1792)

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)