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See also: 1754 in music, other events of 1755, 1756 in music, list of years in music.

Events

In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements, Thomas Arne and his wife, the soprano Cecilia Young, agree to separate.

Classical music

Der Tod Jedu by Carl Heinrich Graun
Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride" by Leopold Mozart

Opera

Egidio Romualdo Duni - L'Olimpiade
Carl Heinrich Graun - Montezuma (libretto by King Frederick II of Prussia)

Births

May 12 - Giovanni Battista Viotti
June 1 - Frederico Fiorillo, violinist and composer

Deaths

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