1750 in music

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

[edit] Events

• Farinelli is knighted by King Ferdinand VI of Spain.

[edit] Classical music

• Leopold Mozart - Partita for Violin, Cello and Double Bass "Frog"

[edit] Opera

• Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il filosofo convinto in amore
• William Boyce - The Roman Father

[edit] Births

• August 18 – Antonio Salieri, composer (died 1825)
• (probable) – Anton Stamitz, composer (died c.1805)
• (probable) – Antonio Rosetti, composer (died 1792)

[edit] Deaths

• June 2 – Johann Valentin Rathgeber, composer
• July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, composer (born 1685)
• October 3 – Georg Matthias Monn, composer (born 1717)
• October 16 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, lutenist and composer (born 1687)