1754 in music

Events

• Composer Christoph Graupner loses his sight.
• Publication of Giuseppe Tartini's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia.
• Giovanni Paisiello goes to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studies under Francesco Durante.

Classical music

• Joseph Anton Xaver Auffmann – Triplex concentus organicus, seu III. concerti organici à octo instrumentis, Op. 1
• Michael Festing – Violin Sonatas
• François-Joseph Gossec – Symphony No. 1
• John Jones – 8 Setts of Lessons for harpsichord
• Pietro Locatelli – La foresta incantata
• Pietro Domenico Paradisi – 12 Harpsichord Sonatas
• Joan Baptista Pla and Josep Pla – 6 Trio Sonatas
• Nicola Porpora
• *6 duetti latini per la Passione di Gesù Cristo
• *12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 12
• John Stanley – Ten Voluntarys for organ or harpsichord, Op. 7

Opera

• Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi – Didone
• Nicola Conforto – Ezio
• Baldassare Galuppi – Il filosofo di campagna
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Le Cinesi, Wq.18
• Johann Adolph Hasse – Artemisia
• Jean-Philippe Rameau
• *Anacréon, RCT 30
• *La Naissance d'Osiris, RCT 48

Methods and theory writings

• Dom Philippe-Joseph Caffiaux – Histoire de la musique depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’en 1754
• Michel Corrette – Prototipes contenant des leçons d’accompagnement
• Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Historisch-Kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik
• Johann Mattheson – Plus Ultra
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Observations sur notre instinct pour la musique, et sur son principe
• Giuseppe Tartini – ''Trattato di musica''

Births

• March 15 – Silvestro Palma, opera composer
• May 2 – Vicente Martín y Soler, composer of opera and ballet
• May 12 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher
• June 21 – Caroline Louise von Klencke, librettist and poet
• July 15 – Jacob French, singing master and composer
• July 18 – Joseph Siegmund Bachmann, composer and organist
• August 28 – Peter Winter, opera composer
• September – Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer
• December 9 – Étienne Ozi, bassoonist and composer
• December 20 – Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer
• date unknown
• *Hans Gram, organist and composer
• *Michel Yost, composer and clarinetist

Deaths

• May 16 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer and Kapellmeister
• June 22 – Nicolas Siret, organist, harpsichordist and composer
• October 6 – Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer
• probable
• *Mlle Guédon de Presles, singer, composer and actress
• *Seedo, German theatre composer working in Britain