1776 in music
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[edit] 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
[edit] Popular music
- Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Topladyfat cats
[edit] Opera
- Gaetano Marinelli – Il Barone di Sardafritta
- Ignaz Pleyel – Die Fee Urgele
- Antonio Tozzi – Le Due Gemelli
- Tommaso Traetta – Germondo
[edit] Classical music
- François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie de chasse; Symphonie en ré
- James Hook – The Ascension (oratorio)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Haffner Serenade, K.250
[edit] 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
- 19 August – Johan Peter Strömberg, dancer and theatre director
- December 6 – Paul Friedrich Struck, composer
[edit] Deaths
- February 13 – Luis Misón, composer (b. 1727)
- April 22 – Johann Adolph Scheibe, music theorist
- May 6 – James Kent, composer
- June 10 – Leopold Widhalm, luthier (b. 1722)
- November 22 – Johann Caspar Simon, composer
