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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his opera Idomeneo at Munich.
The Danish national anthem, "Kong Kristian...", is first sung.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen goes into its third edition.

January 10 - Francesco Antonio Vallotti, organist, composer and music theorist (b. 1697)
February 1 - Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer (b. 1713)
April 21 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
August 19 - Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
September 6 - George Alexander Stevens, songwriter (b. 1710)
December 14 - Ignatius Sancho, composer and actor (b. c. 1729)
date unknown - Hedvig Wigert, opera singer (b. 1748)