1738 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• Antonio Vivaldi conducts a festival to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Schouwburg theater.
• 4 May – Foundation of the Imperial Ballet School at Saint Petersburg, with Jean-Baptiste Landé as its principal.

Classical music

• Francesco Durante – Messa piccola di requiem in G

Opera

• Thomas Arne – Comus
• Antonio Bioni – Girita
• George Frideric Handel – Serse and Faramondo
• Giovanni Battista Pescetti – La Conquista del Vello D'Oro
• Francesco Maria Veracini – Rosalinda

Births

• May – Jonathan Battishill, composer (died 1801)
• August 14 – Leopold Hofmann, composer (died 1793)
• November 15 – William Herschel, astronomer and composer (died 1822)
• December 14 – Jan Antonín Koželuh, composer (died 1814)
• date unknown
  • Carlo Besozzi, oboist and composer (died 1791)
  • Thomas Ebdon, organist and composer (died 1811)

Deaths

• January 6 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer (born 1663)
• January 17 – Jean-François Dandrieu, harpsichordist, organist and composer (born c. 1682)
• March 25 – Turlough O'Carolan, harpist and composer (born 1670)
• July 20 – Tommaso Redi, composer (born c.1675)
• August 23 - Baron Anders von Düben, director of the Royal Swedish Orchestra (born 1673)
• August 29 – Georg Reutter, organist and composer (born 1656)
• September 23 – Carlo Agostino Badia, opera composer (born 1672)
• December 22 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer (born 1681)
• date unknown - José de Torres, composer (born 1665)