See also: 1755 in music, other events of 1756, 1757 in music, list of years in music.

Contents

1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Christoph Willibald Gluck is knighted by Pope Benedict XIV

Classical music

Opera

• Idomeneo by Baldassare Galuppi

Births

• January 27 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• June 20 - Joseph Martin Kraus

Deaths

• September 19 - Josef Antonin Sehling
• April 15 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg