1754 in music
# 1754 in music

## 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

* Joseph Anton Xaver Auffmann – Triplex concentus organicus, seu III. concerti organici à octo instrumentis (3 organ concertos), Op. 1 (Augsburg)
* Michael Festing – Violin Sonatas (published posthumously)
* François-Joseph Gossec – Symphony No. 1
* John Jones – 8 Setts of Lessons for harpsichord (London)
* Pietro Locatelli – La foresta incantata (ballet)
* Pietro Domenico Paradisi – 12 Harpsichord Sonatas
* Joan Baptista Pla and Josep Pla – 6 Trio Sonatas
* Nicola Porpora
   * 6 duetti latini per la Passione di Gesù Cristo
   * 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 12
* John Stanley – Ten Voluntarys for organ or harpsichord, Op. 7 (London)

## Opera

* Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi – Didone
* Nicola Conforto – Ezio
* Baldassare Galuppi – Il filosofo di campagna
* Christoph Willibald Gluck – Le Cinesi, Wq.18
* Johann Adolph Hasse – Artemisia
* Jean-Philippe Rameau
   * Anacréon, RCT 30
   * La Naissance d'Osiris, RCT 48

## Methods and theory writings

* Dom Philippe-Joseph Caffiaux – Histoire de la musique depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’en 1754
* Michel Corrette – Prototipes contenant des leçons d’accompagnement
* Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Historisch-Kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik
* Johann Mattheson – Plus Ultra
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Observations sur notre instinct pour la musique, et sur son principe
* Giuseppe Tartini – Trattato di musica

## 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)
* June 21 – Caroline Louise von Klencke, librettist and poet (died 1802)
* July 15 – Jacob French, singing master and composer (died 1817)
* July 18 – Joseph Siegmund Bachmann, composer and organist (died 1825)
* August 28 – Peter Winter, opera composer (died 1825)
* September – Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer (died 1792)
* 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)
   * Michel Yost, composer and clarinetist (died 1786)

## 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)
