1775 in music

See also: 1774 in music, other events of 1775, 1776 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Premiere of Pierre Beaumarchais's play, The Barber of Seville, which will later provide material for more than one opera.
• Wilhelm Hauser becomes organist at the monastery of Lavaldieu and the teacher of Étienne Méhul.

Classical music

• Concerto for Oboe in D major by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
• Missa [longa] k 262/246 "a," C by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Requiem by Joseph Martin Kraus

Opera

• Il Demofoonte by Josef Myslivecek
• La Finta Giardiniera and Il Re Pastore by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Births

• January 21 – Manuel Garcia, singer and composer
• April 11 – Charles-François Dumonchau, composer
• May 1 – Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer
• June 13 – Antoni Henryk Radziwill, composer
• July 5 – William Crotch, composer
• July 17 – August Harder, composer
• August 2 – Jose Angel Lamas, composer
• August 17 – Philippe Libon, composer
• August 28 – Sophie Gail, composer
• August 31 – François de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer
• October 15 – Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer
• October 21 – Giuseppe Baini, composer
• October 27 – Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer
• November 15 – Georges-Julien Sieber, composer
• December 6 – Nicolas Isouard, composer
• December 16 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer
• December 25 – Antun Sorkocevic, composer
• December 30 – Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer

Deaths

• January 15 – Giovanni Battista Sammartini
• September 7 – Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer
• October 14 – Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer
• November 16 – Marian Paradeiser, composer
• November 29 – Lorenzo Somis, composer
• unknown date – Egidio Duni, composer