| Year |
Event |
| 1751 |
Francesco Geminiani: "The Art of Playing on the Violin" |
| 1751 |
Handel: "Jephta," Oratorio |
| 1751 |
The minuet becomes Europe's fashionable dance |
| 1751 |
"War of the Operas" (La Guerre des Bouffons) divides Paris into pro-Italian and pro-French factions |
| 1752 |
Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, born |
| 1752 |
Charles Avison: "Essay on Musical Expression" |
| 1752 |
Sebastien Erard, French manufacturer of Pianofortes, born |
| 1752 |
Rousseau: "Le devin du village" |
| 1753 |
Johann Schenck, Austrian composer, born |
| 1753 |
Gottfried Silbermann, German organ builder, dies |
| 1753 |
Giovanni Viotti, Italian violinist and composer, born |
| 1754 |
Vicente Martin y Soler, Spanish composer, born |
| 1755 |
Maurice Green, English organist and composer, dies |
| 1755 |
Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian composer and organist, dies |
| 1755 |
Egidio Romoaldo Duni: "Ninette a la cour" |
| 1756 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer, born |
| 1756 |
Leopold Mozart: " Versuch einer grundlichen Violinschule" |
| 1757 |
Niccolo Pasquali, Italian violinist and composer, dies |
| 1757 |
Ignaz Pleyel, French Austrian composer and pianoforte maker, born |
| 1757 |
First public concert in Philadelphia |
| 1757 |
Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer, dies |
| 1757 |
Johann Stamitz, German composer, dies' |
| 1758 |
First English manuel on guitar playing published |
| 1758 |
Karl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, friend of Goethe, born |
| 1759 |
Handel dies |
| 1759 |
Haydn: Symphony no 1 in D major |
| 1760 |
William Boyce collection of cathedral music |
| 1760 |
Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer, born |
| 1760 |
Haydn: Symphonies 2 to 5 |
| 1760 |
Noverre, ballet master at Stuttgart, publishes his "Letter on Dancing and Ballets" |
| 1761 |
Thomas Augustine Arne: "Judith," oratorio, London |
| 1761 |
Johann Ludwig Dussek, Bohemian composer, born |
| 1761 |
Gluck: "Don Juan," ballet ,Vienna |
| 1761 |
Haydn appointed Kapellmeister to PRince Paul Esterhazy |
| 1762 |
Thomas Augustine Arne: "Artaxerxes," opera, Covent Garden, London |
| 1762 |
Benjemin Franklin improves the harmonica, turning it into a practical musical instrument |
| 1762 |
Gluck: "Orpheus and Euridice," opera, Vienna |
| 1762 |
Mozart (age six) tours Europe as musical prodigy |
| 1762 |
St. Cecilia Society active in Charleston, SC |
| 1763 |
Adalbert Gyrowetz, Bohemian composer, born |
| 1763 |
Etienne Mehul, French composer, born |
| 1764 |
J.C. Bach gives popular recitals in London |
| 1764 |
Haydn:Symphony no 22 in E Flat ( "The Philosopher") |
| 1764 |
Mozart (age eight) writes his first symphony |
| 1764 |
Rameau, French composer, dies |
| 1765 |
Thomas Attwood, English composer and organist, born |
| 1765 |
Daniel Steibelt, German composer and pianist, born |
| 1766 |
Nicola Porpora, Italian composer, dies |
| 1766 |
Haydn: Great Mass in E Flat (no 4 with organ) |
| 1767 |
Gluck: "Alceste," Burgtheater, Vienna |
| 1767 |
Rousseau: "Dictionnaire de musique" |
| 1767 |
Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer, dies; Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach becomes his sucessor as director of church music in Hamburg |
| 1768 |
Jomelli:"Fetonte," opera, Stuttgart |
| 1768 |
Mozart's first produced opera "Bastien and Bastienne" given in Vienna |
| 1769 |
Bonifacio Asioli, Italian music scholar and composer, born |
| 1769 |
Joseph Elsner, German - Polish composer, Chopin's teacher, born |
| 1770 |
Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer, born |
| 1770 |
Gluck: "Paride ed Elena," opera, Vienna |
| 1770 |
Handel's "Messiah," first performed in New York |
| 1770 |
Haydn: "La Pescatrice," opera buffa |
| 1770 |
Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist, dies |
| 1771 |
Haydn: "Sun" quartets (nos 25-30) |
| 1771 |
Piccini: "Le Finte Gemelle," Rome |
| 1772 |
Flight and Kelly, London firm of organ builders produces first barrel organs |
| 1772 |
First German performance of Handel's "Messiah" |
| 1772 |
Haydn: six symphonies, OP. 20 |
| 1772 |
Mozart: "lucio Silla," opera, Milan |
| 1773 |
Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer, dies |
| 1773 |
Charles Burney: " The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Provinces" |
| 1773 |
The Waltz becomes fashionable in Vienna |
| 1774 |
Gluck: "Iphigenie en Aulide," Paris |
| 1775 |
K.P.E. Bach: "Die Israeliten in der Wuste" oratorio |
| 1775 |
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, French opera composer, born |
| 1775 |
Mozart: "La Finta Giardiniera," opera buffa, Salzburg |
Music History Timeline - 1751 to 1775
