1757 in music

The year 1757 in music involved some significant compositions.

Events

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

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

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)^[1]
date unknown
- Osip Kozlovsky, composer (died 1831)
- Alessandro Pepoli, librettist (died 1796)

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)