1758 in music

Events

• Publication of the first English-language manual on the guitar.
• William Boyce becomes organist of the Chapel Royal.
• Giovanni Battista Locatelli takes his opera productions to Russia. Among the members of the troupe are the brothers Giuseppe and Vincenzo Manfredini.

  Popular music

• None listed

  Opera

• Florian Leopold Gassmann – Issipile
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – L'île de Merlin
• Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – Les fêtes de Paphos, Op.10
• Davide Perez – Solimano
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – La Lyre enchantée
• Tommaso Traetta – Buovo d'Antona

  Classical music

• Charles Avison – Twelve Concertos, Op. 6
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• *Fugue in D minor, H.99
• *Sechs Sonaten für Clavier mit veränderten Reprisen, Wq.50
• *Keyboard Sonata in A major, H.133
• *Geistliche Oden und Lieder I, H.686
• Franz Ignaz Beck – 6 Symphonies, Op. 1
• William Boyce – Overture No.7
• Giacomo Cervetto – 6 Trio Sonatas
• Baldassare Galuppi – L'oracolo del Vaticano
• Francesco Geminiani – The Harmonical Miscellany
• Michael Haydn
• *Symphony No. 1 in C major
• *Divertimento in C major, MH 27
• Pieter Hellendaal – 6 Concerti Grossi, Op. 3
• Johann Philipp Kirnberger – 8 Fugues
• Johann Adolph Scheibe – 3 Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Laudate Jehovam, TWV 7:25

  Methods and theory writings

• Jakob Adlung – Anleitung zu der musikalischen Gelahrtheit
• François Clément – Essai sur l'accompagnement du clavecin
• Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Anleitung zur Singcomposition

  Births

• February 1 – Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten, librettist and poet
• February 4 – Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, choreographer and ballet dancer
• February 7 – Benedikt Schack, operatic tenor and composer
• February 12 – Christian Ignatius Latrobe, music collector and composer
• April 23 – Matthieu Frédéric Blasius, composer and violinist
• May 25 – Matthew Camidge, composer and organist
• June 4 – Joseph Dacre Carlyle, librettist and orientalist
• June 30 – António Leal Moreira, composer
• July – Nicolas-Julien Forgeot, French librettist
• August 25 – Franz Teyber, composer
• September 25
• *Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• *Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, pianist and composer
• October 5
• *Thomas Greatorex, music collector and organist
• *August Heinrich Julius Lafontaine, librettist and novelist
• October 7 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
• November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, librettist and author
• December 3
• *Louis Adam, French composer
• *Joseph Gelinek, composer and pianist
• December 11 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer and editor
• December 31 – Sophie Hagman, ballerina
• Date unknown
• *Harriett Abrams, composer and musician
• *Glafira Alymova, harpsichordist
• *Josep Gallés, composer and organist
• *Bernardo Porta, Italian composer
• *John Sale, composer and bass singer

  Deaths

• January 28 – Johann Paul Schiffelholz, composer for the mandora
• March 22 – Richard Leveridge, opera singer
• April 2 – Johann Balthasar König, German composer
• April 24 – Florian Wrastill, composer
• April 30 – François d'Agincourt, organist, harpsichordist and composer
• June – John Travers, organist and composer
• July 15 – Ambrosius Stub, librettist and poet
• October 4 – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Italian composer and violinist
• October 14 – Wilhelmine Von Bayreuth, composer and princess
• November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, composer
• November 27 – Senesino, castrato singer
• December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer
• December 26 – François-Joseph de La Grange-Chancel, librettist and dramatist
• probable
• *Sanctus Seraphin, violin-maker
• *Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio, Italian composer