1775 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

February 23 – Première of Pierre Beaumarchais's play, The Barber of Seville, which will later provide material for more than one opera.
Wilhelm Hauser becomes organist at the monastery of Lavaldieu and the teacher of Étienne Méhul.

January 21 – Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García, singer and composer (d. 1832)
June 4 – Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (d. 1847)
June 13 – Antoni Radziwiłł, politician and musician (d. 1833)
July 5 – William Crotch, composer (d. 1847)
August 2 – José Ángel Lamas, composer (d. 1814)
August 31 – François de Fossa, guitarist and composer (d. 1849)
October 15 – Bernhard Henrik Crusell, clarinettist and composer (d. 1838)
October 21 – Giuseppe Baini, composer and music critic (d. 1844)
October 30 – Catterino Cavos, organist, conductor and composer (d. 1840)
December 16 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer (d. 1834)
December 25 – Antun Sorkočević, writer, composer and diplomat (d. 1841)
September 17 – Margrethe Schall, ballerina (d. 1852)
date unknown
- Joseph Antonio Emidy, violinist and composer (d. 1835)
- Andrea Nozzari, operatic tenor (d. 1832)