1754 in music

Events

• Composer Christoph Graupner loses his sight.
• Publication of Giuseppe Tartini's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia.
• Giovanni Paisiello goes to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studies under Francesco Durante.

Classical music

• Michael Festing – Violin sonatas (published posthumously)
• François-Joseph Gossec – Symphony No. 1
• Pietro Locatelli – La foresta incantata (ballet)
• Pietro Domenico Paradisi – 12 sonate de gravicembalo

Opera

• Vincenzo Ciampi – Didone
• Johann Adolph Hasse – Artemisia

Births

• March 15 - Silvestro Palma, opera composer (died 1834)
• May 2 – Vicente Martín y Soler, composer of opera and ballet (died 1806)
• May 12 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher (died 1812)
• July 15 - Jacob French, singing master and composer (died 1817)
• August - Peter Winter, opera composer (died 1825)
• September 7 - Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer (died 1792)
• November 30 – Ferdinand Ries, composer and friend of Beethoven (died 1838)
• December 9 - Étienne Ozi, bassoonist and composer (died 1813)
• December 20 - Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer (died 1837)
• date unknown - Hans Gram, organist and composer (died 1804)

Deaths

• May 16 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer and Kapellmeister (born 1677)
• June 22 - Nicolas Siret, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1663)
• October 6 - Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697)
• probable
  • Mlle Guédon de Presles, singer, composer and actress (date of birth unknown)
  • Seedo, German theatre composer working in Britain (born c.1700)