1754 in music

• Blinded by composer Christoph Graupner , which put an end to his creative career.
• Giuseppe Tartini published the treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia .
• Giovanni Paisiello begins to study at the Conservatory "Sant Onofrio a Capuano" ( Italian: Conservatorio di S. Onofrio ) in Naples , where one of his teachers was Francesco Durante .

• Michael Christian Festing - “Violin sonatas” ( eng. Violin sonatas , posthumous publication).
• Francois Joseph Gossek - Symphony No. 1 .
• Pietro Lokatelli - the ballet The Magic Forest ( Italian: La foresta incantata ).
• Pietro Domenico Paradisi - “12 Sonatas for Harpsichord” ( Italian: 12 sonate de gravicembalo ).

• Vincenzo Ciampi ( Italian: Vincenzo Ciampi ) - Didone .
• Baldassare Galuppi - “Country Philosopher” ( Italian: Il filosofo di campagna , Goldoni's libretto).
• Johann Adolf Hasse - Artemisia .

• March 15 - Silvestro Palma , Italian opera composer (died in 1834 ).
• May 2 - Vicente Martin y Soler , Spanish opera and ballet composer who worked in Italy, Austria and Russia (died in 1806 ).
• May 12 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister , German composer and music publisher, was close to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died in 1812 ).
• July 15 - Jacob French ( English Jacob French ), a singing teacher, one of the first American composers (died in 1817 ).
• August 28 - Peter von Winter , German composer, vocalist and conductor (died 1825 ).
• September - Elizabeth Ann Sheridan , nee Linley, English singer, second daughter of composer Thomas Linley, wife of playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan , (died 1792 ).
• December 9 - Etienne Ozi , French bassoonist and composer (died 1813 ). ^[one]
• December 20 - Joseph Schubert , German composer, violinist and viola player (died 1837 ).
• unknown date - Hans Gram , American organist and composer of Danish descent (died in 1804 ).

• May 16 - Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari , Italian composer and bandmaster (born in 1677 ).
• June 22 - Nicolas Sire , French organist, harpsichordist and composer (born in 1663 ).
• October 6 - Adam Falkkenhagen , German lutenist and composer of the Baroque era (born in 1697 ).

supposedly

• Gedon de Prel ( fr. Mlle Guédon de Presles ), French singer, composer and actress (year of birth unknown).
• Seedo (aka Sidow, real name unknown), German organist and composer who worked mainly in England (born around 1700 ).