1776 in music

1776 in music

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

Popular music

*"Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship" by Augustus Montague Toplady

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
*December 6 - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer

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


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