1755 in music

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Events

In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements, Thomas Arne and his wife, the soprano Cecilia Young, agree to separate.
Ferdinando Bertoni becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice.

March 2 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, opera composer (died 1799)
May 12 – Giovanni Battista Viotti (died 1824)
June 18 – Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1821)
November 10 – Franz Anton Ries, violinist (died 1846)
date unknown
- John Christopher Moller, early American composer (died 1803)
- Caroline Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1826)
- Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt, composer (died 1810)
- Agnieszka Truskolaska, opera singer (died 1831)

January 11 – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1705)
April – Anastasia Robinson, operatic soprano (born c. 1692)
August 13 – Francesco Durante, composer (born 1684)
October 28 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born 1689)
November 25 – Johann Georg Pisendel, composer (born 1687)
December 1 – Maurice Greene, organist and composer (born 1696)
December 8 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer (born 1680)
date unknown
- John Clerk of Penicuik, composer
- Manuel de Zumaya, Mexican composer (born c.1678)