1740 in music
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Events
- Johann Sebastian Bach begins to lose his sight.
- Carl Heinrich Graun becomes Kapellmeister to Frederick II of Prussia. Johann Joachim Quantz becomes Frederick's flute teacher.
- Ferdinando Bertoni arrives in Bologna where he becomes a pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini.
- December 26 – The Teatro Regio (Turin) is inaugurated with a performance of Francesco Feo's opera Arsace.
Classical music
- Thomas Arne – Alfred (masque), including the song, "Rule Britannia"
- George Frideric Handel – Op. 6, 12 concerti grossi
Opera
- Bernardo Aliprandi – Semiramide riconosciuta
- Vincenzo Ciampi – La Beatrice
- Baldassare Galuppi – Gustavo primo re di Svezia
- Maurice Greene – The Judgement of Hercules
- Luca Antonio Predieri – Zenobia
Births
- February 4 – Carl Michael Bellman, poet and composer (died 1795)
- May 9 – Giovanni Paisiello, composer (died 1816)
- August 10 – Samuel Arnold (composer), composer (died 1802)
- November 4 – Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn-writer (died 1778)
- December - Elisabeth Olin, operatic soprano (died 1828)
- unknown date
- John Antes, composer (died 1811)
- Sir Peter Beckford, English peer (died 1811), patron of Muzio Clementi
- Samuel Webbe, composer (died 1816)
- probable – Anna Bon, singer and composer
Deaths
- January 5 – Antonio Lotti, composer (born 1667)
- January 13 – William Turner, singer and composer (born 1651)
- January 25 – Geminiano Giacomelli, composer (born 1692)
- February 9 – Vincent Lübeck, organist and composer (born 1654)
- October 14 – Domenico Alberti, composer (born c.1710)
- unknown date
- Edward Purcell, organist (born 1689)
- Poul Christian Schindler, composer (born 1648)
- probable - François Dieupart, French composer (born after 1667)
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