1766 in music

1766 in music

Events

*Joseph Haydn becomes Kapellmeister to the Esterházys. The orchestra is increased to 22 players.
*Niccolò Piccinni is invited to Paris by Queen Marie Antoinette.
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes the first act of an oratorio, "Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots", to be completed by Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser.

Opera

*Egidio Romualdo Duni - "La clochette"
*Joseph Haydn - "La Canterina" (libretto by an unknown, based on material by Carlo Goldoni)
*Johann Adam Hiller - "Der lustige Schuster"

Classical music

*Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach - "Pieces (40) for Keyboard, Wq 117: no 2, Solfeggio in C minor, H 220"
* Capel Bond - "Six Concertos in Seven Parts"
*Joseph Haydn - "Great Mass in E flat"
*Michael Haydn - "Symphony in B flat major"
*Niccolò Jommelli - "Missa Solemne"

Births

*January 10 - Louis Massonneau, composer (died 1848)
*February 24 - Samuel Wesley, organist and composer (died 1837)
*March 28 - Joseph Weigl, composer and conductor (died 1820)
*June 19 - Edmund Weber, composer
*July 18 - Johann Anton Friedrich Fleischmann, composer (died 1798)
*July 21 - Carolina, Baroness Nairne, Scottish songwriter (died 1845)
*August 1 - Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist and composer (died 1839)
*August 22 - Joseph-Denis Doche, composer (died 1825)
*October 9 - Bedřich Diviš Weber, composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory (died 1842)
*November 16 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, violinist and composer (died 1831)
*November 20 - John Wall Callcott, composer (died 1821)

Deaths

*February 26 - August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer (born 1735)
*March 3 - Gregor Joseph Werner, composer and leader of Prince Paul Esterhazy's orchestra (born 1693)
*March 25 - Johannes Ritschel, composer (born 1739)
*October 7 - André Chéron, composer (born 1695)
*"date unknown" - Susannah Maria Arne, singer (born 1714)
*"date unknown" - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, composer (born 1692)
*"date unknown" - François Étienne Blanchet II, harpsichord maker (born 1730)


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