- 1777 in music
Events
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives inVienna .
*Samuel Arnold becomes musical director of the Haymarket Theatre in London.
*"Über die Theorie der Musik" byJohann Nikolaus Forkel is published inGöttingen .
*Thomas Arne and his wife are reconciled after a separation of over twenty years.Opera
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Agostino Accorimboni - "Nitteti"
*Luigi de Baillou - "Il casino di campagna"
*Christoph Willibald Gluck - "Armide "
*Joseph Haydn - "Il Mondo della Luna "Classical music
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Michael Haydn - "Missa S Hieronymi"
*Gottfried August Homilius - "Christmas Oratorio"
* Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 ("Jeunehomme")
*Josef Mysliveček - "Isacco figura del redentore" (oratorio)
*Johann Baptist Vanhal - "Violin Concerto in B flat"Births
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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
*November 5 -Filippo Taglioni , dancer and choreographer
*December 16 -János Fusz , composer
*William Russell, organist and composer
*Hedda Hjortsberg , ballerinaDeaths
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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
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