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March 28 – Mozart returns to Salzburg from a tour of Italy but is back in Milan for the premiere of his opera Ascanio in Alba on October 17.^[1]
Foundation of the Royal Theatre Ballet School in Copenhagen, Denmark.^[2]
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges is appointed maestro of the Concert des Amateurs in Paris.^[3]
Probable^[4] – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf becomes Hoffkomponist (court composer) to Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch, Prince-Bishop of Breslau, at château Jánský Vrch (Johannesberg) in Javorník.

Carl Friedrich Abel
- 6 Trio Sonatas, WK 86-91 Op. 9
- 6 Easy Sonatas, WK 141-146
Luigi Boccherini
- Cello Sonata in A major, G.4
- 6 String Quintets, G.265-270, Op. 10
- 6 String Quintets Op. 11 (with the famous minuet, No. 5 (G 275))
- Symphony in D major, Op. 12 no 1/G 503
- Symphony in E-flat major, Op. 12 no 2/G 504
- Symphony in C major, Op. 12 no 3/G 505
František Xaver Brixi – Pastorella in C major for organ
Muzio Clementi – 6 Piano Sonatas, Op. 1
Ernst Eichner
- 3 Harpsichord Trios, Op. 3
- Harp Concerto in D major, Op. 9
Baldassare Galuppi – Jephte et Helcana (oratorio)
Tommaso Giordani – 6 Harpsichord Quintets, Op. 1
Joseph Haydn
- Baryton Trio in A major, Hob.XI:7
- Baryton Trio in A major, Hob.XI:9
- Baryton Trio in B minor, Hob.XI:96
- Piano Sonata in C minor Hob. XVI:20
- Keyboard Concerto in C major, Hob.XVIII:10
- Symphony No. 42
- Symphony No. 43
James Hook – 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 1
Thomas Linley Jr – Violin Concerto in F major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Symphony No. 12
- Symphony No. 13
- Symphony No. 14
- Divertimento No. 1 in E-flat major, K. 113
- Regina Coeli for soprano, chorus and orchestra in C major, K. 108/74d
- Litaniae Lauretanae in B-flat major, K. 109/74e
- Betulia liberata, oratorio K. 118/74c
Josef Mysliveček – Veni sponsa Christi
Johann Gottfried Wilhelm Palschau – Harpsichord Concertos No.1-2
Johann Baptist Vanhal
- 6 String Quartets, Op. 6
- 6 Oboe Quartets, Op. 7

February 9 – Daniel Belknap, composer (d. 1815)
February 24 – Johann Baptist Cramer, pianist (d. 1858)
March 21 – Thomas John Dibdin, dramatist and songwriter (d. 1841)
May 13 – Siegfried August Mahlmann, librettist and poet (died 1826)
June 1 – Ferdinando Paër, Italian composer (died 1839)
August 15 – Walter Scott, librettist and novelist (died 1832)
August 27 – Friedrich Methfessel, composer (died 1807)
September 17 – Johann August Apel, librettist (d. 1816)
October 1 – Pierre Baillot, violinist and composer (d. 1842)
October 3 – Auguste Creuzé de Lesser, librettist and politician (died 1839)
October 29 – Anna Leonore König, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (d. 1854)
November 4 – James Montgomery, librettist and editor (died 1854)
November 17 – Jonathan Huntington, composer (d. 1838)
December 26 – Heinrich Joseph von Collin, librettist and poet (died 1811)
date unknown – Marie Antoinette Petersén, singer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (d. 1855)
- Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist, opera singer (d. 1800)

January 23 – Martin Berteau, composer and musician (born 1691)^[5]
March 30 – Anton Joseph Hampel, horn player (b. 1710)^[6]
May 20 – Christopher Smart, poet and hymn-writer (b. 1722; possible liver failure)^[7]
May 29 – Johann Adolph Hass, clavichord and harpsichord maker (b. 1713)
July 30 – Thomas Gray, librettist and poet (born 1716)
October 14 – František Brixi, composer (b. 1732)
October 28 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, composer (b. 1703)
November 4 – Pierre Nicolas Brunet, librettist and playwright (born 1733)
November 18 – Giuseppe de Majo, Italian composer (born 1697)
date unknown – Andrea Soldi, copyist and portraitist (born 1703)

^ Helminger, Bernhard (2015). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (7th ed.). Salzburg: Colorama. p. 17. ISBN 978-3-902692-03-0.
^ Carsten Wulff; Denmark. Udenrigsministeriet (1996). Denmark. Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ISBN 978-87-87646-70-3.
^ Partington, Charles Frederick (1837). The British cyclopædia of biography. p. 849.
^ Randel, Don Michael (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Harvard University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-674-00084-1.
^ Charles J. Hall (April 1990). An eighteenth-century musical chronicle: events 1750-1799. Greenwood Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-313-26576-1.
^ The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. University Press. 1910. p. 74.
^ Chris Mounsey (2001). Christopher Smart: Clown of God. Bucknell University Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-8387-5483-2.