1752 in music

Events

 * February 3 – Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole in Metz, Lorraine, is opened.
 * June 13 – Composer Maria Teresa Agnesi marries Pier Antonio Pinottini.
 * September 25 – Antonio Soler becomes organist at El Escorial.
 * November 3 – George Frideric Handel is operated on for an eye condition, at Guy's Hospital in London.
 * Christoph Willibald Gluck becomes Konzertmeister at Vienna.
 * Artist Thomas Gainsborough joins the Ipswich Musical Society; he later paints the portrait of English composer Joseph Gibbs
 * Nicola Porpora leaves Dresden for Vienna.
 * Johann Wilhelm Hertel replaces his father, Johann Christian Hertel, as Kapellmeister at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
 * Anton Cajetan Adlgasser marries Maria Josepha, daughter of Johann Ernst Eberlin.
 * Ferdinando Bertoni becomes first organist at St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

Classical music

 * George Frideric Handel – Jephtha
 * Johann Adolph Scheibe – Der Tempel des Ruhmes
 * Georg Philipp Telemann
 * Concerto à 4, TWV 43:D4
 * Sonata à 4, TWV 43:F1

Opera

 * Jean-Baptiste Cardonne – Amaryllis
 * Christoph Willibald Gluck – La clemenza di Tito, Wq.16
 * Carl Heinrich Graun
 * L'Orfeo, GraunWV B:I:25
 * Il giudizio di Paride, GraunWV B:I:26
 * Niccolò Jommelli – I rivali delusi (intermezzo)
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Le Devin du Village (part of Rousseau's response in the Querelle des Bouffons)

Publications

 * Filippo Palma – Sei arie con istromenti, Op. 4 (London: John Johnson)
 * Domenico Scarlatti – 12 Sonatas Modernas para Clavicordio, Libro 1 (London: J. Johnson)
 * Georg Philipp Telemann – Second Livre de duo pour deux violons, fluttes ou hautbois (Paris: Mr. Blavet, Mme. Boivin, Mr. Le Clerc, Melle. Castagneri), 6 sonatas without bass, TWV 40:124–129

Methods and theory writings

 * Charles Avison – Essay on Musical Expression
 * Jean le Rond D'Alembert – Eléments de musique théorique et pratique
 * Johann Joachim Quantz – Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen, a treatise on playing the flute
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau – Nouvelles réflexions de M. Rameau sur sa Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie
 * Joseph Riepel – Anfangsgründe zur musicalischen Setzkunst

Births

 * January 24 – Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist (died 1832)
 * February 11 – Charles Knyvett, singer and arranger (died 1822)
 * February 12 – Josef Reicha, conductor and composer (died 1795)
 * March 29 – Edward Jones, composer and harpist (died 1824)
 * April 4 – Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, composer (died 1837)
 * April 5 – Sébastien Érard, piano-maker (died 1831)
 * May 2 – Ludwig August Lebrun, composer (died 1790)
 * May 14 – Juliane Reichardt, pianist, singer and composer (died 1783)
 * May 31 – John Marsh, composer (died 1828)
 * September 8 – Carl Stenborg, operatic tenor and composer (died 1813)
 * September 30 – Justin Heinrich Knecht, organist and composer (died 1817)
 * October 22 – Ambrogio Minoja, composer (died 1825)
 * November 25 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer and music critic (died 1814)
 * November 30 – André da Silva Gomes, Brazilian composer (died 1844)
 * December 3 – Georg Friedrich Fuchs, composer, clarinetist and music teacher (died 1821)
 * December 4 – Ange-Étienne-Xavier Poisson de La Chabeaussière, librettist and playwright (died 1820)
 * date unknown
 * Francesco Bianchi, composer and music collector (died 1810)
 * Leonard McNally, librettist and writer (died 1820)
 * Abraham Wood, military drummer and composer (died 1804)

Deaths

 * January 1 – Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Sindhi Sufi scholar, mystic, saint, poet, and musician (born 1689)
 * March 7 – Pietro Castrucci, violinist and composer (born 1679)
 * June 19 – Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, harpsichord and clavichord maker
 * July 20 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer (born 1667)
 * July 24 – Michael Christian Festing, violinist and composer
 * date unknown – Anton Wilhelm Solnitz, composer (born c.1708)