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Events
Opera
Classical music
Births
- February 24 – Samuel Wesley, organist and composer (died 1837)
- March 28 – Joseph Weigl, composer and conductor (died 1820)
- July 18 – Johann Anton Friedrich Fleischmann, composer (died 1798)
- July 21 – Carolina, Baroness Nairne, Scottish songwriter (died 1845)
- August 1 – Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist and composer (died 1839)
- August 22 – Joseph-Denis Doche, composer (died 1825)
- October 9 – Bedřich Diviš Weber, composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory (died 1842)
- November 16 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, violinist and composer (died 1831)
- November 20 – John Wall Callcott, composer (died 1821)
Deaths
- January 30 – Susannah Maria Arne, singer (born 1714)
- February 26 – August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer (born 1735)
- March 3 – Gregor Werner, composer and leader of Prince Paul Esterházy's orchestra (born 1693)
- March 20 - Giovanni Battista Pescetti, organist and composer (born c. 1704)
- March 25 – Johannes Ritschel, composer (born 1739)
- April - François Étienne Blanchet II, harpsichord maker (born 1730)
- October 7 – André Chéron, composer (born 1695)
- November 9 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, composer (born 1692)
- December – Carlo Tessarini, violinist and composer (born c. 1690)
- date unknown - Alvise Giusti, librettist (born 1709)