1750 in music

Events

• May 1 - George Frideric Handel begins the tradition of benefit performances of his oratorio Messiah at and for the Foundling Hospital in London.
• 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.

  Classical music

• 1750 is commonly used to mark the end of the Baroque period
• Leopold Mozart – Partita for Violin, Cello and Double Bass
• Niccolò Pasquali – XII English songs in score. Collected from several masques and other entertainments...

  Opera

• Johann Friedrich Agricola - Il filosofo convinto in amore
• William Boyce – The Roman Father

  Births

• January 25 - Johann Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer
• March 23 - Johannes Matthias Sperger, Austrian contrabassist and composer
• August 18 - Antonio Salieri, Italian-born composer
• November - Anton Stamitz, German composer
• date unknown - Mikhail Matinsky, Russian mathematician, librettist and opera composer
• probable - Antonio Rosetti, born Franz Anton Rösler, Bohemian-born composer

  Deaths

• January 4 - Christoph Schütz, German music publisher
• January 29 - Sophia Schröder, Swedish soprano at the Kungliga Hovkapellet
• February 22 - Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian organist, choirmaster and composer
• March 6 - Domenico Montagnana, Italian luthier
• June 2 - Valentin Rathgeber, German composer
• July 28 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer
• August - John Tufts, American music teacher
• September 15 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-born organist, harpsichordist and composer
• October 3 - Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer
• October 16 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lutenist and composer
• November - Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian-born oboist and composer
• November 15 - Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon
• date unknown - Francesco Goffriller, Italian violin maker