1756 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• Christoph Willibald Gluck is knighted by Pope Benedict XIV
• Johann Christian Bach settles in Italy.

Classical music

• Joseph Haydn – Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. XVIII/1

Opera

• Pasquale Cafaro – La disfatta di Dario
• Baldassare Galuppi – Idomeneo
• Pierre van Maldere – Le Déguisement pastorale
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Zoroastre
• Antonio Sacchini – Fra Donato

Publications

• Leopold Mozart – Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule ("A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing")

Births

• January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (died 1791)
• May 7 – Thomas Linley the younger, English composer (died 1778)
• June 20 – Joseph Martin Kraus, German-born composer (died 1792)
• September 27 – Christoffer Christian Karsten, Swedish operatic tenor (died 1827)
• date unknown – Joséphine-Rosalie de Walckiers, Dutch-Austrian composer (died 1836)

Deaths

• January 25 – Christian Vater, German organ and harpsichord builder (born 1679)
• April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Bolognese composer (born 1661)
• April 13 – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German keyboard virtuoso (born 1727)
• August 18 – Erdmann Neumeister, German hymnologist (born 1671)
• September 19 – Josef Antonín Sehling, Bohemian composter (born 1710)
• date unknown – Riccardo Broschi, Italian-born composer (born c. 1698)