1753 in music

Events

• January 10 – King Louis XV of France banishes Eustachio Bambini and his Italian opera company from Paris.
• May 1 – George Frideric Handel plays the organ in public for the last time, at the Foundling Hospital, London.
• June 15 – Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in Schwetzingen Palace, Baden-Württemberg, designed by Nicolas de Pigage, is inaugurated with a performance of Ignaz Holzbauer's opera Il figlio delle selve.
• October 12 – Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residenz, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is inaugurated with a performance of Ferrandini's opera Catone in Utica.
• November 21 – Niccolò Jommelli is appointed music director and Oberkapellmeister to Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, at Stuttgart.
• Teatro Carignano in Turin is inaugurated with a performance of Baldassare Galuppi's opera Calamità de' cuori.
• Grand Théâtre in Antwerp is inaugurated.

Classical music

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• *Harpsichord Concerto in C minor, H.441 Wq. 31
• *Harpsichord Concerto in B minor, H.440 Wq. 60
• *6 Keyboard Sonatas, Wq.63
• Christoph Graupner – Gott der Herr ist Sonne und Schild, GWV 1113/54
• Niccolò Jommelli – 7 Trio Sonatas
• Jean-Marie Leclair – Ouvertures et sonates en trio, Op. 13. Ouverture No. 3 arranged from Ouverture to Scylla et Glaucus ; the trio sonatas are arranged from the solo sonatas Op. 2 No. 8, Op. 1 No. 12, and Op. 2 No. 12
• Domenico Scarlatti – Books 3 and 5, 30 sonatas each Collection of Harpsichord Sonatas
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Fürchtet den Herrn und dienet ihm treulich
• Carlo Tessarini – Contrasto armonico, Op. 10
• Giuseppe Valentini – Concerto in D major
• Samuel Simon Weise – Det Danske Syngende Nymphe-Chor
• Johann Baptist Wendling – Flute Concerto in C major, GUN 26

Opera

• Maria Agnesi – Ciro in Armenia
• Rinaldo Da Capua – La zingara
• Antoine Dauvergne – Les troqueurs
• Giovanni Battista Ferrandini – Catone in Utica
• Carl Heinrich Graun – Silla, GraunWV B:I:27
• Johann Adolf Hasse
• *L'eroe cinese
• *Solimano
• Niccolò Jommelli
• *Attilio Regolo, with libretto by Metastasio
• *Bajazette
• *La clemenza di Tito
• *Il parataio
• Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – Titon et l'Aurore
• Davide Perez – L'Olimpiade
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – ''Daphnis et Eglé''

Methods and theory writings

• Charles Avison – An Essay on Musical Expression
• Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach publishes the first part of his treatise Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen, including instructions for improvisation.
• Michel Corrette – Le Maitre de clavecin
• William Hayes – Remarks on Mr. Avison's Essay on Musical Expression
• Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Abhandlung von der Fuge
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Extrait d'une réponse de M. Rameau à M. Euler sur l'identité des octaves
• Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt – ''Versuch über die Musikalische Intervallen''

Births

• January 9 - Luísa Todi, Portuguese opera singer
• March 2 – Johann Samuel Schröter, German composer
• April 8 – Pigault-Lebrun, librettist and writer
• May 3 – Jeanne-Renée de Bombelles Travanet, composer and librettist
• June 8 – Nicolas Dalayrac, composer of opéra-comique
• September 29 – Johann Gottfried Schicht, conductor and composer
• November 4 – Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker, librettist and art historian
• November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval, cellist and composer
• November 19 – Stanislas Champein, French composer
• November 30 – Johann Baptist Schenk, composer
• December 28 – Johan Wikmanson, organist and composer

Deaths

• February 7 – Giovanni Alberto Ristori, opera composer and conductor, 60
• February 16 – Giacomo Facco, violinist, conductor and composer, 77
• May 19 – Jacques Aubert, composer, 63
• August 4 – Gottfried Silbermann, German constructor of keyboard instruments, 70
• September 24 – Georg Gebel (the younger), composer, 43
• November – Giuseppe Valentini, violinist, painter, poet, and composer, 71
• November 4 – Johann Nicolaus Bach, organist and composer, eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach, 84
• November 16 – Nicolas Racot de Grandval, harpsichordist and composer, 77unknown date – John Holt, bell-ringer and composer, 27