1755 in music
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Events
- In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
- After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements, Thomas Arne and his wife, the soprano Cecilia Young, agree to separate.
- Ferdinando Bertoni becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice.
Classical music
- Carl Heinrich Graun – Der Tod Jesu
- Leopold Mozart – Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride"
- Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Tod Jesu TWV 5:6
Opera
- Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il tempio d'amore
- Pierre Montan Berton – Deucalion et Pyrrha
- Egidio Duni – L'Olimpiade
- Carl Heinrich Graun – Montezuma (libretto by King Frederick the Great)
Births
- January 16 – Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt, composer (died 1810)
- February 5 – Caroline Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1826)
- March 2 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, opera composer (died 1799)
- May 12 – Giovanni Battista Viotti (died 1824)
- June 18 – Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1821)
- November 10 – Franz Anton Ries, violinist (died 1846)
- November 30 – Agnieszka Truskolaska, opera singer (died 1831)
- date unknown - John Christopher Moller, early American composer (died 1803)
Deaths
- January 11 – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1705)
- January 19 – Jean-Pierre Christin, scientist and musician (born 1683)
- April – Anastasia Robinson, operatic soprano (born c.1692)
- June 21 – Giovanni Porta, opera composer (born c.1675)
- July 4 – John Cennick, hymn-writer (born 1718)
- July 6 – Pietro Paolo Bencini, Italian composer and Kapellmeister (born c.1670)
- July 9 – Johann Gottlob Harrer, German composer and choir leader (born 1703)
- September 30 – Francesco Durante, composer (born 1684)
- October 4 – Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, of Penycuik, composer (born 1676)
- October 28 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born 1689)
- November 25 – Johann Georg Pisendel, composer (born 1687)
- December 1 – Maurice Greene, organist and composer (born 1696)
- December 8 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer (born 1680)
- date unknown
- Alexander Gordon, antiquary and singer (born c.1692)
- Manuel de Zumaya, Mexican composer (born c.1678)
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