1754 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Composer Christoph Graupner loses his sight.
• Publication of Giuseppe Tartini's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia

[edit] Classical music

• Michael Festing (composer) - Violin sonatas (published posthumously)
• François-Joseph Gossec - Symphony No. 1
• Pietro Locatelli - La foresta incantata (ballet)
• Pietro Domenico Paradisi - 12 sonate de gravicembalo

[edit] Opera

• Didone by Vincenzo Ciampi
• Artemisia by Johann Adolph Hasse

[edit] Births

• May 12 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister (died 1812)
• May 2 - Vicente Martín y Soler (died 1806)
• November 30 - Ferdinand Ries, composer and friend of Beethoven (died 1838)

[edit] Deaths

• November 9 - Johann Christoph Fravenholtz