1758 in music
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Events
- Publication of the first English-language manual on the guitar.
- William Boyce becomes organist of the Chapel Royal.
- Giovanni Battista Locatelli takes his opera productions to Russia. Among the members of the troupe are the brothers Giuseppe and Vincenzo Manfredini.
Popular music
- None listed
Opera
- Florian Leopold Gassmann – Issipile
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – L'île de Merlin
Classical music
- Michael Haydn – Symphony No. 1 in C major
Births
- February 7 – Benedikt Schack, operatic tenor and composer (d. 1826)
- August 25 – Franz Teyber, composer
- September 25
- Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841)
- Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, pianist and composer
- October 7 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
- December 11 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer (died 1832)
- December 31 – Sophie Hagman, ballerina (d. 1826)
- Date unknown – Glafira Alymova, harpsichordist (d. 1826)
Deaths
- January 28 – Johann Paul Schiffelholz, composer for the mandora (born 1685)
- March 22 – Richard Leveridge, opera singer (born 1670)
- April 24 – Florian Wrastill, composer
- April 30 – François d'Agincourt, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1684)
- June – John Travers, organist and composer (born 1703)
- October 4 – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Italian composer and violinist (born c. 1690)
- November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, composer (born 1694)
- November 27 – Senesino, castrato singer (born 1686)
- December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (born 1688)
- probable – Sanctus Seraphin, violin-maker (born 1699)
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