1776 in music - Definition and Overview

See also: 1775 in music, other events of 1776, 1777 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Charles Burney publishes his History of Music
• Bolshoi Theatre hosts its first annual opera season
• Court Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of Sweden
• Giovanni Paisiello is invited to the court of Catherine the Great

Popular music

• Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Toplady

Opera

• Le Due Gemelli by Antonio Tozzi
• Il Barone di Sardafritta by Gaetano Marinelli

Classical music

• The Ascension (oratorio) by James Hook
• Haffner Serenade, K.250 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Births

• January 24 - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, author and composer
• February 18 - John Parry, composer
• February 21 - Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
• April 8 - Thaddaus Weigl, composer
• May 10 - George Thomas Smart, composer
• May 12 - Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
• May 13 - Charles Ots and Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composers
• June 1 - John George Schetky, composer
• August 4 - Wenzel Sedlak, composer
• August 15 - Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer
• August 16 - Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer
• December 6 - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer

Deaths

• April 22 - Johann Adolph Scheibe, music theorist
• April 24 - Giuseppe Paolucci
• May 6 - James Kent, composer
• November 22 - Johann Caspar Simon, composer
• unknown date - Mattia Vento