Jan 5 Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, German organist and composer, dies at 53
Jan 21 Gottfried Kirchhoff, German composer, dies at 60
May 15 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, Italian composer and castrato singer dies at 67
May 30 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
Aug 27 Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, German-Bohemian organist, and baroque composer, dies at about 89
Dec 6 Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
Dec 10 Teodorico Pedrini, also known as De Lige, Italian Vincentian priest, musician, composer, and missionary at the imperial court of China (1711-46), dies at 75