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 Toplady
[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
- December 6 - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer
[edit] 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
