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, 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)
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