# 1757 in music

The year 1757 in music involved some significant compositions.

## Events

* None listed

## Classical music

* Thomas Arne – 7 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
** Keyboard Sonata in D minor, H.38
** Fugue in A major, H.101
** Keyboard Sonata in D minor, H.105
** Keyboard Sonata in G major, H.119
** L'Auguste, H.122
** La Xénophone et La Sybille, H.123
* Georg Benda – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas
* Anna Bon – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 2
* Louis-Claude Daquin – Livre de Noëls
* Johann Friedrich Fasch – Serenata Fwv B: 4 \ Beglückter Tag (written for the birthday of Catherine the Great)
* Carl Heinrich Graun – Te Deum, GraunWV B:VI:2
* George Frideric Handel – The Triumph of Time and Truth
* Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, Op.2 (written between 1757 and 1762)
* Johann Gottlieb Janitsch – Sonata da Camera in D major, Op.5
* Leopold Mozart – Concerto for Trombone in G major
* Charles Noblet – Nouvelles suittes [sic] de pièces de clavecin et trois sonates
* Giovanni Battista Serini
** Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major
** Keyboard Sonata in C major
** Keyboard Sonata in E major
* Georg Philipp Telemann – Lyksalig Tvillung-Rige!, TWV 12:10

## Opera

* Florian Leopold Gassmann — Merope
* Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi — Lo solachianello imbroglione
* Niccolò Jommelli — Temistocle
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – L'enlèvement d'Adonis
* Giuseppe Scarlatti — La clemenza di Tito
* Tommaso Traetta – Didone abbandonata

## Methods and theory writings

* Giovanni Batista Martini – Storia della musica
* Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
** Anfangsgründe der theoretischen Musik (Leipzig: Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf)
** Handbuch bey dem Generalbasse und der Composition (Berlin: Gottlieb August Lange)
* Nicolo Pasquali – Thorough-Bass Made Easy
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Réponse de M. Rameau à MM. les éditeurs de l'Encyclopédie sur leur dernier avertissement

## Births

* January 28 – Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer (died 1821)
* January 29 – Lazare Rameau, composer (died 1794)
* February 17 – Antonio Calegari, composer (died 1828)
* April 22 – Alessandro Rolla, violinist, composer and music teacher (died 1841)
* May 27 – Caroline von Brandenstein, composer (died 1813)
* June 18 – Ignaz Pleyel, composer and piano-maker (died 1831)
* August 21 – Joseph Franz Ratschky, librettist (died 1810)
* September 6 – August Friedrich Ernst Langbein, German humorist and lyricist (died 1835)
* November 28 – William Blake, poet and lyricist (died 1827)
* date unknown
** Osip Kozlovsky, composer (died 1831)
** Alessandro Pepoli, librettist (died 1796)

## Deaths

* February 11 – Mauro D’Alay, composer and violinist (born 1687)
* February 25 – Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani, composer (born c. 1690)
* March 20 – Johann Paul Kunzen, composer (born 1696)
* March 27 – Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (born 1717)
* July 23 – Domenico Scarlatti, composer (born 1685)
* August 11 – Jose Pradas Gallen, composer
* September 28 – Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (born 1696) (carriage accident)
* October 11 – Zacharias Hildebrandt, organ builder (born 1688)
* November 8 – Pierre Prowo, composer
* date unknown
** Lodovico Filippo Laurenti, composer (born 1693)
** Balthasar Siberer, organ teacher (born 1679)
* probable – Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (born c. 1700)