1757 in music

The year 1757 in music involved some significant compositions.

Events

 * None listed

Classical music

 * Thomas Arne – 7 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3
 * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
 * Keyboard Sonata in D minor, H.38
 * Fugue in A major, H.101
 * Keyboard Sonata in D minor, H.105
 * Keyboard Sonata in G major, H.119
 * L'Auguste, H.122
 * La Xénophone et La Sybille, H.123
 * Georg Benda – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas
 * Anna Bon – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 2
 * Louis-Claude Daquin – Livre de Noëls
 * Johann Friedrich Fasch – Serenata Fwv B: 4 \ Beglückter Tag (written for the birthday of Catherine the Great)
 * Carl Heinrich Graun – Te Deum, GraunWV B:VI:2
 * George Frideric Handel – The Triumph of Time and Truth
 * Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, Op.2 (written between 1757 and 1762)
 * Johann Gottlieb Janitsch – Sonata da Camera in D major, Op.5
 * Leopold Mozart – Concerto for Trombone in G major
 * Charles Noblet – Nouvelles suittes [sic] de pièces de clavecin et trois sonates
 * Giovanni Battista Serini
 * Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major
 * Keyboard Sonata in C major
 * Keyboard Sonata in E major
 * Georg Philipp Telemann – Lyksalig Tvillung-Rige!, TWV 12:10

Opera

 * Florian Leopold Gassmann — Merope
 * Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi — Lo solachianello imbroglione
 * Niccolò Jommelli — Temistocle
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau – L'enlèvement d'Adonis
 * Giuseppe Scarlatti — La clemenza di Tito
 * Tommaso Traetta – Didone abbandonata

Methods and theory writings

 * Giovanni Batista Martini – Storia della musica
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
 * Anfangsgründe der theoretischen Musik (Leipzig: Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf)
 * Handbuch bey dem Generalbasse und der Composition (Berlin: Gottlieb August Lange)
 * Nicolo Pasquali – Thorough-Bass Made Easy
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau – Réponse de M. Rameau à MM. les éditeurs de l'Encyclopédie sur leur dernier avertissement

Births

 * January 28 – Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer (died 1821)
 * January 29 – Lazare Rameau, composer (died 1794)
 * February 17 – Antonio Calegari, composer (died 1828)
 * April 22 – Alessandro Rolla, violinist, composer and music teacher (died 1841)
 * May 27 – Caroline von Brandenstein, composer (died 1813)
 * June 18 – Ignaz Pleyel, composer and piano-maker (died 1831)
 * August 21 – Joseph Franz Ratschky, librettist (died 1810)
 * September 6 – August Friedrich Ernst Langbein, German humorist and lyricist (died 1835)
 * November 28 – William Blake, poet and lyricist (died 1827)
 * date unknown
 * Osip Kozlovsky, composer (died 1831)
 * Alessandro Pepoli, librettist (died 1796)

Deaths

 * February 11 – Mauro D’Alay, composer and violinist (born 1687)
 * February 25 – Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani, composer (born c. 1690)
 * March 20 – Johann Paul Kunzen, composer (born 1696)
 * 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)