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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.

Opera

  • Baldassare Galuppi – Il Mondo alla Roversa
  • Florian Leopold Gassmann – Issipile
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck – 'L'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renversé
  • Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – Les fêtes de Paphos, Op.10
  • Davide Perez – Solimano
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau – La Lyre enchantée
  • Tommaso Traetta – Buovo d'Antona
  • Johann Adolph Hasse
    • Il Sogno di Scipione
    • Demofoonte

Classical music

  • Charles Avison – Twelve Concertos, Op. 6 (London and Newcastle)
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    • Fugue in D minor, H.99
    • Sechs Sonaten für Clavier mit veränderten Reprisen, Wq.50 (H. 126, 136–140) (begun, completed 1759, published 1760)
    • Keyboard Sonata in A major, H.133
    • 12 Kleine Stücke, H. 600, Wq. 81
    • Geistliche Oden und Lieder I (Leipzig), H.686 (composed 1757)
  • Franz Ignaz Beck – 6 Symphonies, Op. 1
  • William Boyce – Overture No.7
  • Giacomo Cervetto – 6 Trio Sonatas
  • Baldassare Galuppi – L'oracolo del Vaticano
  • Francesco Geminiani – The Harmonical Miscellany (periodical, in two volumes, London)
  • Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 37
  • Michael Haydn
    • Symphony No. 1 in C major
    • Divertimento in C major, MH 27
  • Pieter Hellendaal – 6 Concerti Grossi, Op. 3
  • Johann Philipp Kirnberger – 8 Fugues (written for Prussian Princess Anna Amalia)
  • Johann Adolph Scheibe – 3 Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
  • Georg Philipp Telemann – Laudate Jehovam, TWV 7:25

Methods and theory writings

  • Jakob Adlung – Anleitung zu der musikalischen Gelahrtheit
  • François Clément – Essai sur l'accompagnement du clavecin
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Anleitung zur Singcomposition

Births

  • February 1 – Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten, librettist and poet (died 1818)
  • February 4 – Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, choreographer and ballet dancer (died 1840)
  • February 7 – Benedikt Schack, operatic tenor and composer (d. 1826)
  • February 12 – Christian Ignatius Latrobe, music collector and composer (died 1836)
  • April 23 – Matthieu Frédéric Blasius, composer and violinist (died 1829)
  • May 25 – Matthew Camidge, composer and organist (died 1844)
  • June 4 – Joseph Dacre Carlyle, librettist and orientalist (died 1804)
  • June 30 – António Leal Moreira, composer (died 1819)
  • July – Nicolas-Julien Forgeot, French librettist (died 1798)
  • 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 5
    • Thomas Greatorex, music collector and organist (died 1831)
    • August Heinrich Julius Lafontaine, librettist and novelist (died 1831)
  • October 7 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
  • November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, librettist and author (died 1841)
  • December 3
    • Louis Adam, French composer (died 1848)
    • Joseph Gelinek, composer and pianist (died 1825)
  • December 11 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer and editor (died 1832)
  • December 31 – Sophie Hagman, ballerina (d. 1826)
  • Date unknown
    • Harriett Abrams, composer and musician (died 1821)
    • Glafira Alymova, harpsichordist (d. 1826)
    • Josep Gallés, composer and organist (died 1836)
    • Bernardo Porta, Italian composer (died 1829)
    • John Sale, composer and bass singer (died 1827)

Deaths

  • January 28 – Johann Paul Schiffelholz, composer for the mandora (born 1685)
  • March 22 – Richard Leveridge, opera singer (born 1670)
  • April 2 – Johann Balthasar König, German composer (born 1691)
  • April 24 – Florian Wrastill, composer
  • April 30 – François d'Agincourt, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1684)
  • June – John Travers, organist and composer (born 1703)
  • July 15 – Ambrosius Stub, librettist and poet (born 1705)
  • October 4 – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Italian composer and violinist (born c. 1690)
  • October 14 – Wilhelmine Von Bayreuth, composer and princess (born 1709)
  • November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, composer (born 1694)
  • November 27 – Senesino, castrato singer (born 1686)
  • December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (born 1688)
  • December 26 – François-Joseph de La Grange-Chancel, librettist and dramatist (born 1677)
  • probable
    • Sanctus Seraphin, violin-maker (born 1699)
    • Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio, Italian composer (born 1699)
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