1755 in music

Events

• In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
• After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements, Thomas Arne and his wife, the soprano Cecilia Young, agree to separate.
• Ferdinando Bertoni becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice.

  Published popular music

• James Oswald – Airs for the Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter, for violin or flute and basso continuo
• Mme Papavoine – Nous voici donc au jour de l'an. Étrennes

  Classical music

• Charles Avison – Eight Concertos, Op. 4
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• *Harpsichord Concerto in F major, H.443 Wq. 33
• *Keyboard Concerto in G major, H.444 Wq. 34
• *Flute Concerto in G major, H.445 Wq. 169
• *Trio Sonata in B-flat major, H.587 Wq. 159
• *Symphony in D major, H.651 Wq. 176
• Gaspard Fritz – 6 Violin Sonatas
• Francesco Geminiani – Six Concertos, Op. 2, second edition, corrected and enlarged, with some new movements, by the author, and now published in score ; originally published 1732
• Carl Heinrich Graun – Der Tod Jesu
• Leopold Mozart – Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride"
• John Christopher Smith – Six Suits of Lessons for the Harpsichord, Op. 3
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Tod Jesu TWV 5:6

  Opera

• Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il tempio d'amore
• Pierre Montan Berton – Deucalion et Pyrrha
• Egidio Duni – L'Olimpiade
• Baldassare Galuppi – La diavolessa
• Carl Heinrich Graun – Montezuma
• Niccolò Jommelli – Pelope
• John Christopher Smith – The Fairies

  Methods and theory writings

• Touissant Bordet – Méthode raisonnée pour apprendre la musique
• Marianus Königsperger – Der wohl-unterwiesene Clavier-Schüler
• Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Anleitung zum Clavierspielen
• Christoph Nichelmann – Die Melodie
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Erreurs sur la musique dans l'Encyclopédie
• Georg Andreas Sorge – Ausweichungs-Tabellen

  Births

• January 16 – Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt, composer
• February 5 – Caroline Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer
• March 2 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, opera composer
• April 16 – Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, copyist and painter
• May 12 – Giovanni Battista Viotti
• June 1 – Federigo Fiorillo, arranger and composer
• June 18 – Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer
• August 1 – Antonio Capuzzi, composer and violinist
• November 8 – Edmond de Favières, French librettist
• November 10 – Franz Anton Ries, violinist
• November 30 – Agnieszka Truskolaska, opera singer
• date unknown – John Christopher Moller, early American composer

  Deaths

• January 11 – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, harpsichordist and composer
• January 15 – Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaja, Italian composer
• January 19 – Jean-Pierre Christin, scientist and musician
• April – Anastasia Robinson, operatic soprano
• April 30 – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, composer and painter
• June 21 – Giovanni Porta, opera composer
• July 4 – John Cennick, hymn-writer
• July 6 – Pietro Paolo Bencini, Italian composer and Kapellmeister
• July 9 – Johann Gottlob Harrer, German composer and choir leader
• September 30 – Francesco Durante, composer
• October 4 – Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, of Penycuik, composer
• October 28 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
• November 25 – Johann Georg Pisendel, composer
• December 1 – Maurice Greene, organist and composer
• December 8 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer
• date unknown
• *José Elías, composer and organist
• *Alexander Gordon, antiquary and singer
• *Manuel de Zumaya, Mexican composer