- 1776 in music
Events
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Charles Burney publishes his "History of Music"
*Bolshoi Theatre hosts its first annualopera season
*Court Theatre inStockholm built by KingGustav III of Sweden
*Giovanni Paisiello is invited to the court ofCatherine the Great Popular music
*"Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship" by
Augustus Montague Toplady Opera
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Gaetano Marinelli - "Il Barone di Sardafritta "
*Ignaz Pleyel - "Die Fee Urgele"
*Antonio Tozzi - "Le Due Gemelli "
*Tommaso Traetta - "Germondo"Classical music
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François Joseph Gossec - "Symphonie de chasse"; "Symphonie en ré"
*James Hook - "The Ascension" (oratorio )
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Haffner Serenade", K.250Births
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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 andRodrigo 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 , composerDeaths
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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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