1776 in music
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Events
- September 24 - The Bolshoi Theatre company hosts its first annual opera season, with the opening of the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St Petersburg.[1]
- December 26 - Giovanni Paisiello's opera Il finto spettro, is premièred in Mannheim. Paisiello has already been invited to the court of Catherine the Great.
- Charles Burney publishes his History of Music
- Court Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of Sweden
Popular music
- Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Topladyfat cats
Opera
- Gaetano Marinelli – Il Barone di Sardafritta
- Ignaz Pleyel – Die Fee Urgele
- Antonio Tozzi – Le Due Gemelli
- Tommaso Traetta – Germondo
Classical music
- François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie de chasse; Symphonie en ré
- James Hook – The Ascension (oratorio)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Haffner Serenade, K.250
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
- August 19 – Johan Peter Strömberg, dancer and theatre director
- December 6 – Paul Friedrich Struck, composer
Deaths
- February 13 – Luis Misón, composer, 50
- April 22 – Johann Adolph Scheibe, music theorist, 67
- May 6 – James Kent, composer, 76
- June 10 – Leopold Widhalm, luthier, 53
- November 29 - Zanetta Farussi, opera singer, 69
- date unknown
- Thomas Capell, organist (date of birth unknown)
- Josep Carcoler, composer, 78
- Aaron Williams, composer, 45.[2]
- probable - Matteo Capranica, composer
References
- ^ "Mariinsky Theatre: History of the Theatre". Mariinsky Theatre. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
- ^ Nicholas Temperley. "Williams, Aaron." In Grove Music Online [1] (accessed February 3, 2012).