# 1758 in music
## 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

* Baldassare Galuppi – Il Mondo alla Roversa
* Florian Leopold Gassmann – Issipile
* Christoph Willibald Gluck – 'L'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renversé
* Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – Les fêtes de Paphos, Op.10
* Davide Perez – Solimano
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – La Lyre enchantée
* Tommaso Traetta – Buovo d'Antona
* Johann Adolph Hasse
** Il Sogno di Scipione
** Demofoonte

## Classical music

* Charles Avison – Twelve Concertos, Op. 6 (London and Newcastle)
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
** Fugue in D minor, H.99
** Sechs Sonaten für Clavier mit veränderten Reprisen, Wq.50 (H. 126, 136–140) (begun, completed 1759, published 1760)
** Keyboard Sonata in A major, H.133
** 12 Kleine Stücke, H. 600, Wq. 81
** Geistliche Oden und Lieder I (Leipzig), H.686 (composed 1757)
* Franz Ignaz Beck – 6 Symphonies, Op. 1
* William Boyce – Overture No.7
* Giacomo Cervetto – 6 Trio Sonatas
* Baldassare Galuppi – L'oracolo del Vaticano
* Francesco Geminiani – The Harmonical Miscellany (periodical, in two volumes, London)
* Michael Haydn
** Symphony No. 1 in C major
** Divertimento in C major, MH 27
* Pieter Hellendaal – 6 Concerti Grossi, Op. 3
* Johann Philipp Kirnberger – 8 Fugues (written for Prussian Princess Anna Amalia)
* Johann Adolph Scheibe – 3 Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
* Georg Philipp Telemann – Laudate Jehovam, TWV 7:25

## Methods and theory writings

* Jakob Adlung – Anleitung zu der musikalischen Gelahrtheit
* François Clément – Essai sur l'accompagnement du clavecin
* Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Anleitung zur Singcomposition

## Births

* February 1 – Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten, librettist and poet (died 1818)
* February 4 – Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, choreographer and ballet dancer (died 1840)
* February 7 – Benedikt Schack, operatic tenor and composer (d. 1826)
* February 12 – Christian Ignatius Latrobe, music collector and composer (died 1836)
* April 23 – Matthieu Frédéric Blasius, composer and violinist (died 1829)
* May 25 – Matthew Camidge, composer and organist (died 1844)
* June 4 – Joseph Dacre Carlyle, librettist and orientalist (died 1804)
* June 30 – António Leal Moreira, composer (died 1819)
* July – Nicolas-Julien Forgeot, French librettist (died 1798)
* 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 5
** Thomas Greatorex, music collector and organist (died 1831)
** August Heinrich Julius Lafontaine, librettist and novelist (died 1831)
* October 7 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
* November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, librettist and author (died 1841)
* December 3
** Louis Adam, French composer (died 1848)
** Joseph Gelinek, composer and pianist (died 1825)
* December 11 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer and editor (died 1832)
* December 31 – Sophie Hagman, ballerina (d. 1826)
* Date unknown
** Harriett Abrams, composer and musician (died 1821)
** Glafira Alymova, harpsichordist (d. 1826)
** Josep Gallés, composer and organist (died 1836)
** Bernardo Porta, Italian composer (died 1829)
** John Sale, composer and bass singer (died 1827)

## Deaths

* January 28 – Johann Paul Schiffelholz, composer for the mandora (born 1685)
* March 22 – Richard Leveridge, opera singer (born 1670)
* April 2 – Johann Balthasar König, German composer (born 1691)
* April 24 – Florian Wrastill, composer
* April 30 – François d'Agincourt, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1684)
* June – John Travers, organist and composer (born 1703)
* July 15 – Ambrosius Stub, librettist and poet (born 1705)
* October 4 – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Italian composer and violinist (born c. 1690)
* October 14 – Wilhelmine Von Bayreuth, composer and princess (born 1709)
* November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, composer (born 1694)
* November 27 – Senesino, castrato singer (born 1686)
* December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (born 1688)
* December 26 – François-Joseph de La Grange-Chancel, librettist and dramatist (born 1677)
* probable
** Sanctus Seraphin, violin-maker (born 1699)
** Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio, Italian composer (born 1699)