1758 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Opera 4 Classical music 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• The first manual on the guitar is published in the English language
• William Boyce becomes organist of the Chapel Royal

[edit] Popular music

• None listed

[edit] Opera

• Florian Leopold Gassmann - Issipile
• Christoph Willibald Gluck - L'île de Merlin

[edit] Classical music

• None listed

[edit] Births

• August 25 - Franz Teyber, composer
• October 7 - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
• December 11 - Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer (died 1832)
• unknown date - Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer
• unknown date - Francesco Galeazzi, composer
• unknown date - Constantine Bellermann, composer

[edit] Deaths

• March 22 - Richard Leveridge, opera singer (born 1670)
• April 24 - Florian Wrastill, composer
• April 30 - François d'Agincourt, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1684)
• November 20 - Johan Helmich Roman, composer (born 1694)
• December 5 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (born 1688)