1750 in music
# 1750 in music

## 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).

## Classical music

* 1750 is commonly used to mark the end of the Baroque period
* CPE Bach
   * Cello Concerto in A minor, H.432
   * Harpsichord Concerto in D major, H.433
* Nicolas Chedeville – Les impromptus de Fontainebleau, Op.12
* Francesco Durante – Litania della Beata Maria Vergine in fa minore, a 4 voci
* George Frederic Handel – Theodora, HWV 68 (Oratorio, premiered Mar. 16 in London)
* Niccolo Jommelli – Laudate pueri Dominum
* 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)
* Approximate date
   * Willem de Fesch – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op.13
   * Joseph Haydn – Divertimento in A major, Hob.XVI:5
   * Franz Xaver Richter
      * Symphony in D major, VB 52
      * Symphony in B-flat major, VB 59
   * Filippo Rosa – Recorder Sonata in F major

## Opera

* Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il filosofo convinto in amore
* William Boyce – The Roman Father
* Baldassare Galuppi – Il mondo alla roversa, premiered Nov. 14 in Venice
* Johann Adolf Hasse – Attilio Regolo, premiered Jan. 12 in Dresden.
* Niccolo Jommelli – L’uccellatrice

## Births

* 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)
* December 3
   * Johann Martin Miller, hymnist and lyricist (died 1814)
   * Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer and pianist (died 1817)
* date unknown
   * Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, librettist (died 1817)
   * Mikhail Matinsky, Russian mathematician, librettist and opera composer (died c. 1820)
   * Jean Balthasar Tricklir, cellist and composer (died 1813)
* probable – Antonio Rosetti, born Franz Anton Rösler, Bohemian-born composer (died 1792)

## 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)
* June 14 – Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer (born 1702)
* July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (born 1685)
* August – John Tufts, American music teacher (born 1689)
* September 4 – José de Cañizares, librettist (born 1676)
* September 15 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-born organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1690)
* September 28 – Johann Sigismund Scholze, music anthologist (born 1705)
* 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 11 – Apostolo Zeno, librettist (born 1668)
* November 15 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (born 1668)
* November 25 – Francesco Feroci, composer (born 1673)
* date unknown – Francesco Goffriller, Italian violin maker (born 1692)
