1754 in music

Events

 * Composer Christoph Graupner loses his sight.
 * Publication of Giuseppe Tartini's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia.
 * Giovanni Paisiello goes to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studies under Francesco Durante.

Classical music

 * Joseph Anton Xaver Auffmann – Triplex concentus organicus, seu III. concerti organici à octo instrumentis (3 organ concertos), Op. 1 (Augsburg)
 * Michael Festing – Violin Sonatas (published posthumously)
 * François-Joseph Gossec – Symphony No. 1
 * John Jones – 8 Setts of Lessons for harpsichord (London)
 * Pietro Locatelli – La foresta incantata (ballet)
 * Pietro Domenico Paradisi – 12 Harpsichord Sonatas
 * Joan Baptista Pla and Josep Pla – 6 Trio Sonatas
 * Nicola Porpora
 * 6 duetti latini per la Passione di Gesù Cristo
 * 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 12
 * John Stanley – Ten Voluntarys for organ or harpsichord, Op. 7 (London)

Opera

 * Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi – Didone
 * Nicola Conforto – Ezio
 * Baldassare Galuppi – Il filosofo di campagna
 * Christoph Willibald Gluck – Le Cinesi, Wq.18
 * Johann Adolph Hasse – Artemisia
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau
 * Anacréon, RCT 30
 * La Naissance d'Osiris, RCT 48

Methods and theory writings

 * Dom Philippe-Joseph Caffiaux – Histoire de la musique depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’en 1754
 * Michel Corrette – Prototipes contenant des leçons d’accompagnement
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Historisch-Kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik
 * Johann Mattheson – Plus Ultra
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau – Observations sur notre instinct pour la musique, et sur son principe
 * Giuseppe Tartini – Trattato di musica

Births

 * March 15 – Silvestro Palma, opera composer (died 1834)
 * May 2 – Vicente Martín y Soler, composer of opera and ballet (died 1806)
 * May 12 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher (died 1812)
 * June 21 – Caroline Louise von Klencke, librettist and poet (died 1802)
 * July 15 – Jacob French, singing master and composer (died 1817)
 * July 18 – Joseph Siegmund Bachmann, composer and organist (died 1825)
 * August 28 – Peter Winter, opera composer (died 1825)
 * September – Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer (died 1792)
 * December 9 – Étienne Ozi, bassoonist and composer (died 1813)
 * December 20 – Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer (died 1837)
 * date unknown
 * Hans Gram, organist and composer (died 1804)
 * Michel Yost, composer and clarinetist (died 1786)
 * Michel Yost, composer and clarinetist (died 1786)

Deaths

 * May 16 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer and Kapellmeister (born 1677)
 * June 22 – Nicolas Siret, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1663)
 * October 6 – Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697)
 * probable
 * Mlle Guédon de Presles, singer, composer and actress (date of birth unknown)
 * Seedo, German theatre composer working in Britain (born c.1700)