The year 1757 in music involved some significant compositions.

Events

• None listed

Classical music

• 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

Opera

• Florian Leopold Gassmann — Merope
• Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi — Lo solachianello imbroglione
• Niccolò Jommelli — Temistocle
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – L'enlèvement d'Adonis
• Giuseppe Scarlatti — La clemenza di Tito
• Tommaso Traetta – Didone abbandonata

Methods and theory writings

• 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

Births

• 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)
• date unknown
  • Osip Kozlovsky, composer (died 1831)
  • Alessandro Pepoli, librettist (died 1796)

Deaths

• 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)