1750 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• May 1 – George Frideric Handel begins the tradition of benefit performances of his oratorio Messiah at and for the Foundling Hospital in London.
• 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")
• Niccolò Pasquali – XII English songs in score. Collected from several masques and other entertainments... (London)

Opera

• Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il filosofo convinto in amore
• William Boyce – The Roman Father

Births

• January 25 – Johann Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer (died 1813)
• March 23 – Johannes Matthias Sperger, Austrian contrabassist and composer (died 1812)
• August 18 – Antonio Salieri, Italian-born composer (died 1825)
• November – Anton Stamitz, German composer (died c.1805)
• date unknown – Mikhail Matinsky, Russian mathematician, librettist and opera composer (died c. 1820)
• probable – Antonio Rosetti, born Franz Anton Rösler, Bohemian-born composer (died 1792)

Deaths

• January 4 – Christoph Schütz, German music publisher (born 1689)
• January 29 – Sophia Schröder, Swedish soprano at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (born 1712)
• February 22 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian organist, choirmaster and composer (born 1679)
• March 6 – Domenico Montagnana, Italian luthier (born 1686)
• June 2 – Valentin Rathgeber, German composer (born 1682)
• July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (born 1685)
• August – John Tufts, American music teacher (born 1689)
• September 15 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-born organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1690)
• October 3 – Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer (born 1717)
• October 16 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lutenist and composer (born 1687)
• November – Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian-born oboist and composer (born 1695)
• November 15 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (born 1668)
• date unknown – Francesco Goffriller, Italian violin maker (born 1692)