1750 in music
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Events
- Farinelli is knighted by King Ferdinand VI of Spain.
- Ten-year-old Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf begins playing with the Viennese Schottenkirche orchestra.
- Bach dictates Chorale preludes BWV 666 and 667 to pupil and son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnikol. These are then added to the manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes (BWV 668 is added posthumously).
Classical music
- 1750 is commonly used to mark the end of the Baroque period
- Leopold Mozart – Partita for Violin, Cello and Double Bass "Frog"
Opera
- Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il filosofo convinto in amore
- William Boyce – The Roman Father
Births
- January 25 – Johann Gottfried Vierling, organist and composer (died 1813)
- March 23 – Johannes Matthias Sperger, contrabassist and composer (died 1812)
- August 18 – Antonio Salieri, composer (died 1825)
- November - Anton Stamitz, composer (died c.1805)
- date unknown - Mikhail Matinsky, librettist and opera composer (died c. 1820)
- probable - Antonio Rosetti, composer (died 1792)
Deaths
- January 4 – Christoph Schütz, music publisher (born 1689)
- January 29 - Sophia Schröder, vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (born 1712)
- February 22 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, organist, choirmaster and composer (born 1679)
- March 6 – Domenico Montagnana, luthier (born 1686)
- June 2 – Johann Valentin Rathgeber, composer (born 1682)
- July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, composer (born 1685)
- August - John Tufts, music teacher (born 1689)
- September 15 – 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)