1777 in music - Definition and Overview

See also: 1776 in music, other events of 1777, 1778 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in Vienna
• Samuel Arnold becomes musical director of the Haymarket Theatre in London
• Über die Theorie der Musik by Johann Nikolaus Forkel is published in Göttingen

Opera

• Armide by Christoph Willibald Gluck
• Il Mondo della Luna by Joseph Haydn
• The Beggar's Opera by Thomas Linley

Classical music

• Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 ("Jeunehomme")

Births

• January 1 - Micah Hawkins, composer
• January 3 - Louis Poinsot, instrument maker
• January 8 - Filippo Traetta, musicologist
• April 18 - Ignac Ruzitska, composer
• May 28 - Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
• May 4 - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
• June 2 - Christian Traugott Tag, composer
• September 30 - Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
• December 16 - Janos Fusz, composer
• William Russell, organist and composer

Deaths

• January 1 - Emanuele Barbella, composer
• March 1 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil
• July 27 - William Hayes, composer
• August 17 - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer
• August 23 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
• September 1 - Johann Ernst Bach
• November 30 - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer
• December 21 - Anton Cajetan Adlgasser