# 1752 in music
## Events

* February 3 – Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole in Metz, Lorraine, is opened.
* June 13 – Composer Maria Teresa Agnesi marries Pier Antonio Pinottini.
* September 25 – Antonio Soler becomes organist at El Escorial.
* November 3 – George Frideric Handel is operated on for an eye condition, at Guy's Hospital in London.
* Christoph Willibald Gluck becomes Konzertmeister at Vienna.
* Artist Thomas Gainsborough joins the Ipswich Musical Society; he later paints the portrait of English composer Joseph Gibbs
* Nicola Porpora leaves Dresden for Vienna.
* Johann Wilhelm Hertel replaces his father, Johann Christian Hertel, as Kapellmeister at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
* Anton Cajetan Adlgasser marries Maria Josepha, daughter of Johann Ernst Eberlin.
* Ferdinando Bertoni becomes first organist at St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

## Classical music

* George Frideric Handel – Jephtha
* Johann Adolph Scheibe – Der Tempel des Ruhmes
* Georg Philipp Telemann
** Concerto à 4, TWV 43:D4
** Sonata à 4, TWV 43:F1

## Opera

* Jean-Baptiste Cardonne – Amaryllis
* Christoph Willibald Gluck – La clemenza di Tito, Wq.16
* Carl Heinrich Graun
** L'Orfeo, GraunWV B:I:25
** Il giudizio di Paride, GraunWV B:I:26
* Niccolò Jommelli – I rivali delusi (intermezzo)
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Le Devin du Village (part of Rousseau's response in the Querelle des Bouffons)

## Publications

* Filippo Palma – Sei arie con istromenti, Op. 4 (London: John Johnson)
* Domenico Scarlatti – 12 Sonatas Modernas para Clavicordio, Libro 1 (London: J. Johnson)
* Georg Philipp Telemann – Second Livre de duo pour deux violons, fluttes ou hautbois (Paris: Mr. Blavet, Mme. Boivin, Mr. Le Clerc, Melle. Castagneri), 6 sonatas without bass, TWV 40:124–129

## Methods and theory writings

* Charles Avison – Essay on Musical Expression
* Jean le Rond D'Alembert – Eléments de musique théorique et pratique
* Johann Joachim Quantz – Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen, a treatise on playing the flute
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Nouvelles réflexions de M. Rameau sur sa Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie
* Joseph Riepel – Anfangsgründe zur musicalischen Setzkunst

## Births

* January 24 – Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist (died 1832)
* February 11 – Charles Knyvett, singer and arranger (died 1822)
* February 12 – Josef Reicha, conductor and composer (died 1795)
* March 29 – Edward Jones, composer and harpist (died 1824)
* April 4 – Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, composer (died 1837)
* April 5 – Sébastien Érard, piano-maker (died 1831)
* May 2 – Ludwig August Lebrun, composer (died 1790)
* May 14 – Juliane Reichardt, pianist, singer and composer (died 1783)
* May 31 – John Marsh, composer (died 1828)
* September 8 – Carl Stenborg, operatic tenor and composer (died 1813)
* September 30 – Justin Heinrich Knecht, organist and composer (died 1817)
* October 22 – Ambrogio Minoja, composer (died 1825)
* November 25 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer and music critic (died 1814)
* November 30 – André da Silva Gomes, Brazilian composer (died 1844)
* December 3 – Georg Friedrich Fuchs, composer, clarinetist and music teacher (died 1821)
* December 4 – Ange-Étienne-Xavier Poisson de La Chabeaussière, librettist and playwright (died 1820)
* date unknown
** Francesco Bianchi, composer and music collector (died 1810)
** Leonard McNally, librettist and writer (died 1820)
** Abraham Wood, military drummer and composer (died 1804)

## Deaths

* January 1 – Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Sindhi Sufi scholar, mystic, saint, poet, and musician (born 1689)
* March 7 – Pietro Castrucci, violinist and composer (born 1679)
* June 19 – Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, harpsichord and clavichord maker
* July 20 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer (born 1667)
* July 24 – Michael Christian Festing, violinist and composer
* date unknown
** Girolamo Donnini, composer and conductor
** Anton Wilhelm Solnitz, composer (born c.1708)