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 (BWV 668 is added posthumously).

Classical music

 * 1750 is commonly used to mark the end of the Baroque period
 * CPE Bach
 * Cello Concerto in A minor, H.432
 * Harpsichord Concerto in D major, H.433
 * Nicolas Chedeville – Les impromptus de Fontainebleau, Op.12
 * Francesco Durante – Litania della Beata Maria Vergine in fa minore, a 4 voci
 * George Frederic Handel – Theodora, HWV 68 (Oratorio, premiered Mar. 16 in London)
 * Niccolo Jommelli – Laudate pueri Dominum
 * Leopold Mozart – Partita for Violin, Cello and Double Bass ("Frog")
 * Niccolò Pasquali – XII English songs in score. Collected from several masques and other entertainments... (London)
 * Approximate date
 * Willem de Fesch – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op.13
 * Joseph Haydn – Divertimento in A major, Hob.XVI:5
 * Franz Xaver Richter
 * Symphony in D major, VB 52
 * Symphony in B-flat major, VB 59
 * Filippo Rosa – Recorder Sonata in F major

Opera

 * Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il filosofo convinto in amore
 * William Boyce – The Roman Father
 * Baldassare Galuppi – Il mondo alla roversa, premiered Nov. 14 in Venice
 * Johann Adolf Hasse – Attilio Regolo, premiered Jan. 12 in Dresden.
 * Niccolo Jommelli – L’uccellatrice

Births

 * 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)
 * December 3
 * Johann Martin Miller, hymnist and lyricist (died 1814)
 * Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer and pianist (died 1817)
 * date unknown
 * Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, librettist (died 1817)
 * Mikhail Matinsky, Russian mathematician, librettist and opera composer (died c. 1820)
 * Jean Balthasar Tricklir, cellist and composer (died 1813)
 * probable – Antonio Rosetti, born Franz Anton Rösler, Bohemian-born composer (died 1792)

Deaths

 * 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)
 * June 14 – Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer (born 1702)
 * July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (born 1685)
 * August – John Tufts, American music teacher (born 1689)
 * September 4 – José de Cañizares, librettist (born 1676)
 * September 15 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-born organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1690)
 * September 28 – Johann Sigismund Scholze, music anthologist (born 1705)
 * 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 11 – Apostolo Zeno, librettist (born 1668)
 * November 15 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (born 1668)
 * November 25 – Francesco Feroci, composer (born 1673)
 * date unknown – Francesco Goffriller, Italian violin maker (born 1692)