1754 in music
Events Composer Christoph Graupner loses his sight. Publication of Giuseppe Tartini's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia. Giovanni Paisiello goes to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studies under Francesco Durante. Classical music Joseph Anton Xaver Auffmann – Triplex concentus organicus, seu III. concerti organici à octo instrumentis (3 organ concertos), Op. 1 (Augsburg) Michael Festing – Violin Sonatas (published posthumously) François-Joseph Gossec – Symphony No. 1 John Jones – 8 Setts of Lessons for harpsichord (London) Pietro Locatelli – La foresta incantata (ballet) Pietro Domenico Paradisi – 12 Harpsichord Sonatas Joan Baptista Pla and Josep Pla – 6 Trio Sonatas Nicola Porpora 6 duetti latini per la Passione di Gesù Cristo 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 12 John Stanley – Ten Voluntarys for organ or harpsichord, Op. 7 (London) Opera Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi – Didone Nicola Conforto – Ezio Baldassare Galuppi – Il filosofo di campagna Christoph Willibald Gluck – Le Cinesi, Wq.18 Johann Adolph Hasse – Artemisia Jean-Philippe Rameau Anacréon, RCT 30 La Naissance d'Osiris, RCT 48 Methods and theory writings Dom Philippe-Joseph Caffiaux – Histoire de la musique depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’en 1754 Michel Corrette – Prototipes contenant des leçons d’accompagnement Friedrich Wilhelm