1757 in music
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The year 1757 in music involved some significant compositions.
Events
- None listed
Classical music
- Johann Friedrich Fasch – Serenata Fwv B: 4 \ Beglückter Tag (written for the birthday of Catherine the Great)
- Leopold Mozart – Concerto for Trombone in G major
Opera
- Florian Leopold Gassmann — Merope
- Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi — Lo solachianello imbroglione
- Niccolò Jommelli — Temistocle
- Giuseppe Scarlatti — La clemenza di Tito
Births
- April 22 – Alessandro Rolla, violinist, composer and music teacher (died 1841)
- June 18 – Ignaz Pleyel, composer and piano-maker (died 1831)
Deaths
- March 27 – Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (born 1717)
- July 23 – Domenico Scarlatti, composer (born 1685)
- August 11 – Jose Pradas Gallen, composer
- September 28 – Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (born 1696) (carriage accident)
- October 11 – Zacharias Hildebrandt, organ builder (born 1688)
- November 8 – Pierre Prowo, composer
- date unknown
- Lodovico Filippo Laurenti, composer (born 1693)
- Balthasar Siberer, organ teacher (born 1679)
- probable – Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (born c. 1700)