1758 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• Publication of the first English-language manual on the guitar.
• William Boyce becomes organist of the Chapel Royal.
• Giovanni Battista Locatelli takes his opera productions to Russia. Among the members of the troupe are the brothers Giuseppe and Vincenzo Manfredini.

Popular music

• None listed

Opera

• Florian Leopold Gassmann – Issipile
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – L'île de Merlin

Classical music

• Michael Haydn – Symphony No. 1 in C major

Births

• February 7 – Benedikt Schack, operatic tenor and composer (d. 1826)
• August 25 – Franz Teyber, composer
• September 25
  • Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841)
  • Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, pianist and composer
• October 7 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
• December 11 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer (died 1832)
• December 31 – Sophie Hagman, ballerina (d. 1826)
• Date unknown – Glafira Alymova, harpsichordist (d. 1826)

Deaths

• January 28 – Johann Paul Schiffelholz, composer for the mandora (born 1685)
• March 22 – Richard Leveridge, opera singer (born 1670)
• April 24 – Florian Wrastill, composer
• April 30 – François d'Agincourt, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1684)
• June – John Travers, organist and composer (born 1703)
• October 4 – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Italian composer and violinist (born c. 1690)
• November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, composer (born 1694)
• November 27 – Senesino, castrato singer (born 1686)
• December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (born 1688)
• probable – Sanctus Seraphin, violin-maker (born 1699)