1757 in music

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The year 1757 in music involved some significant compositions.

Events

• None listed

Classical music

• Johann Friedrich Fasch – Serenata Fwv B: 4 \ Beglückter Tag (written for the birthday of Catherine the Great)
• Leopold Mozart – Concerto for Trombone in G major

Opera

• Florian Leopold Gassmann — Merope
• Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi — Lo solachianello imbroglione
• Niccolò Jommelli — Temistocle
• Giuseppe Scarlatti — La clemenza di Tito

Births

• April 22 – Alessandro Rolla, violinist, composer and music teacher (died 1841)
• June 18 – Ignaz Pleyel, composer and piano-maker (died 1831)

Deaths

• March 27 – Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (born 1717)
• July 23 – Domenico Scarlatti, composer (born 1685)
• August 11 – Jose Pradas Gallen, composer
• September 28 – Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (born 1696) (carriage accident)
• October 11 – Zacharias Hildebrandt, organ builder (born 1688)
• November 8 – Pierre Prowo, composer
• date unknown
  • Lodovico Filippo Laurenti, composer (born 1693)
  • Balthasar Siberer, organ teacher (born 1679)
• probable – Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (born c. 1700)