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April 12 Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's last St Mark Passion pastiche (BC D 5) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from George Frideric Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 into the work.
August 1748–October 1749 Repeat (possible concert hall) performance by Bach of Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 in a version by Bach.
Nicola Porpora becomes Kapellmeister at Dresden.

1748–1749 Johann Sebastian Bach compiles his Mass in B minor BWV 232 (BC E 1).

Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Zaïs, premiered on February 29
- Pygmalion, premiered on August 27
- Les surprises de l'Amour, premiered on November 27

February 5 – Christian Gottlob Neefe, conductor, teacher (Ludwig van Beethoven was a student), and composer (died 1798)
March 5 — William Shield, violinist and composer (died 1829)
April 20 – Georg Michael Telemann, composer (died 1831)
August 11 – Joseph Schuster, composer (died 1812)
August 31 – Jean-Étienne Despréaux, singer, dancer and composer (died 1820)
November 30 – Joachim Albertini, composer (died 1812)
date unknown – Hedvig Wigert, opera singer (died 1780)

January 26 – Pierre Rameau, dancing-master (born 1674)
February 26 – Jean-Baptiste Landé, ballet dancer
March 23 — Johann Gottfried Walther, composer and theoretician (born 1684)
November 25 — Isaac Watts, hymn writer (born 1674)
date unknown
- William Corbett, violinist and composer (born 1680)
- Charles King, choir-master and composer (born 1687)
- Jacques Loeillet, oboist and composer (born 1685)
- David Tecchler, luthier (born 1666)