1750 in music

• 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 Altnickol. 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 • CPE Bach • Cello Concerto in A minor, H.432 • Harpsichord Concerto in D major, H.433 • Nicolas Chedeville – Les impromptus de Fontainebleau, Op.12 • Francesco Durante – Litania della Beata Maria Vergine in fa minore, a 4 voci • George Frederic Handel – Theodora, HWV 68 (Oratorio, premiered Mar. 16 in London) • Niccolo Jommelli – Laudate pueri Dominum • 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) • Approximate date • Willem de Fesch – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op.13 • Joseph Haydn – Divertimento in A major, Hob.XVI:5 • Franz Xaver Richter • Symphony in D major, VB 52 • Symphony in B-flat major, VB 59 • Filippo Rosa – Recorder Sonata in F major ==Opera==

• Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il filosofo convinto in amore • William Boyce – The Roman Father • Baldassare Galuppi – Il mondo alla roversa, premiered 14 November in Venice • Johann Adolph Hasse – Attilio Regolo, premiered 12 January in Dresden • Niccolò Jommelli – '''', premiered 6 May at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice ==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) • December 3 • Johann Martin Miller, hymnist and lyricist (died 1814) • Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer and pianist (died 1817) • date unknown • Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, librettist (died 1817) • Mikhail Matinsky, Russian mathematician, librettist and opera composer (died c. 1820) • Jean Balthasar Tricklir, cellist and composer (died 1813) • 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) • June 14 – Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer (born 1702) • July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (born 1685) • August – John Tufts, American music teacher (born 1689) • September 4 – José de Cañizares, librettist (born 1676) • September 15 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-born organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1690) • September 28 – Johann Sigismund Scholze, music anthologist (born 1705) • 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 11 – Apostolo Zeno, librettist (born 1668) • November 15 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (born 1668) • November 25 – , composer (born 1673) • date unknown – Francesco Goffriller, Italian violin maker (born 1692) ==References==