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.
• Ten-year-old Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf begins playing with the Viennese Schottenkircheorchestra.

[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

• January 25 - Johann Gottfried Vierling, organist and composer (died [[
• March 23 - Johannes Matthias Sperger, contrabassist and composer (died 1812)
• August 18 – Antonio Salieri, composer (died 1825)
• date unknown
  • Anton Bullandt, bassoonist and composer (died 1821)
  • Mikhail Matinsky, librettist and opera composer (died c. 1820)
• probable
  • Antonio Rosetti, composer (died 1792)
  • Anton Stamitz, composer (died c.1805)

[edit] Deaths

• January 4 - Christoph Schütz, music publisher (born 1689)
• February 22 - Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, organist, choirmaster and composer (born 1679)
• June 2 – Johann Valentin Rathgeber, composer
• July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, composer (born 1685)
• September - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1690)
• October 3 – Georg Matthias Monn, composer (born 1717)
• October 16 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, lutenist and composer (born 1687)
• November - Giuseppe Sammartini, oboist and composer (born 1695)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Goffriller, violin maker (born 1692)
  • Domenico Montagnana, luthier (born 1686)