1749 in music
Events
Popular Music
Classical music
Opera
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Methods and theory writings
Births
- January 16 â Vittorio Alfieri, librettist and dramatist (died 1803)
- March 10 â Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist (died 1838)
- May â Elisabeth Soligny, French ballerina and ballet mistress
- May 5 â Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, composer (died 1794)
- June 15 â Georg Joseph Vogler, (known as Abbé Vogler) German composer, teacher and theorist (died 1814)
- August 21 â Edvard Storm, librettist and poet (died 1794)
- August 28 â Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, librettist and writer (died 1832)
- September 1 â Lorenz Leopold Haschka, librettist and writer (died 1827)
- October 4 â Jean-Louis Duport, composer and cellist (died 1819)
- December 17 â Domenico Cimarosa, composer (died 1801)
- December 30 â Anton Kraft, Czech composer (died 1820)
- date unknown â Marija Zubova, composer (d. 1799)
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