1757 in music
The year 1757 in music involved some significant compositions.
Events
- ''None listed''
Classical music
- Thomas Arne – 7 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- *Keyboard Sonata in D minor, H.38
- *Fugue in A major, H.101
- *Keyboard Sonata in D minor, H.105
- *Keyboard Sonata in G major, H.119
- *L'Auguste, H.122
- *La Xénophone et La Sybille, H.123
- Georg Benda – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas
- Anna Bon – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 2
- Louis-Claude Daquin – Livre de Noëls
- Johann Friedrich Fasch – Serenata Fwv B: 4 \ Beglückter Tag
- Carl Heinrich Graun – Te Deum, GraunWV B:VI:2
- George Frideric Handel – The Triumph of Time and Truth
- Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, Op.2
- Johann Gottlieb Janitsch – Sonata da Camera in D major, Op.5
- Leopold Mozart – Concerto for Trombone in G major
- Charles Noblet – Nouvelles suittes de pièces de clavecin et trois sonates
- Giovanni Battista Serini
- *Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major
- *Keyboard Sonata in C major
- *Keyboard Sonata in E major
- Georg Philipp Telemann – Lyksalig Tvillung-Rige!, TWV 12:10
Opera
- Florian Leopold Gassmann — Merope
- Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi — Lo solachianello imbroglione
- Niccolò Jommelli — Temistocle
- Jean-Philippe Rameau – L'enlèvement d'Adonis
- Giuseppe Scarlatti — La clemenza di Tito
- Tommaso Traetta – ''Didone abbandonata''
Methods and theory writings
- Giovanni Batista Martini – Storia della musica
- Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
- * Anfangsgründe der theoretischen Musik
- * Handbuch bey dem Generalbasse und der Composition
- Nicolo Pasquali – Thorough-Bass Made Easy
- Jean-Philippe Rameau – ''Réponse de M. Rameau à MM. les éditeurs de l'Encyclopédie sur leur dernier avertissement''
Births
- January 28 – Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer
- January 29 – Lazare Rameau, composer
- February 17 – Antonio Calegari, composer
- April 22 – Alessandro Rolla, violinist, composer and music teacher
- May 27 – Caroline von Brandenstein, composer
- June 18 – Ignaz Pleyel, composer and piano-maker
- August 21 – Joseph Franz Ratschky, librettist
- September 6 – August Friedrich Ernst Langbein, German humorist and lyricist
- November 28 – William Blake, poet and lyricist date unknown
- * Osip Kozlovsky, composer
- * Alessandro Pepoli, librettist
Deaths
- February 11 – Mauro D’Alay, composer and violinist
- February 25 – Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani, composer
- March 20 – Johann Paul Kunzen, composer
- March 27 – Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer
- July 23 – Domenico Scarlatti, composer
- August 11 – Jose Pradas Gallen, composer
- September 28 – Andrea Zani, violinist and composer
- October 11 – Zacharias Hildebrandt, organ builder
- November 8 – Pierre Prowo, composer
- date unknown
- *Lodovico Filippo Laurenti, composer
- *Balthasar Siberer, organ teacher
- probable – Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer