1755 in music
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See also: 1754 in music, other events of 1755, 1756 in music, list of years in music.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Classical music
- Der Tod Jedu by Carl Heinrich Graun
- Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride" by Leopold Mozart
[edit] Opera
- Egidio Romualdo Duni - L'Olimpiade
- Carl Heinrich Graun - Montezuma (libretto by King Frederick II of Prussia)
[edit] Births
- May 12 - Giovanni Battista Viotti (died 1824)
- June 1 - Frederico Fiorillo, violinist and composer
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1705)
- August 13 - Francesco Durante, composer (born 1684)
- October 28 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born 1689)
- November 25 - Johann Georg Pisendel, composer (born 1687)
- date unknown
- John Clerk of Penicuik, composer
- Manuel de Zumaya, Mexican composer (born c.1678)
