1750 in music

Events

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 Altnikol. These are then added to the manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes (BWV 668 is added posthumously).

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)
date unknown – Mikhail Matinsky, Russian mathematician, librettist and opera composer (died c. 1820)
probable – Antonio Rosetti, born Franz Anton Rösler, Bohemian-born composer (died 1792)

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)
July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (born 1685)
August – John Tufts, American music teacher (born 1689)
September 15 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-born organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1690)
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 15 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (born 1668)
date unknown – Francesco Goffriller, Italian violin maker (born 1692)

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