- 1766 in music
Events
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Joseph Haydn becomes Kapellmeister to the Esterházys. The orchestra is increased to 22 players.
*Niccolò Piccinni is invited to Paris by QueenMarie Antoinette .
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes the first act of an oratorio, "Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots", to be completed byMichael Haydn andAnton Cajetan Adlgasser .Opera
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Egidio Romualdo Duni - "La clochette"
*Joseph Haydn - "La Canterina " (libretto by an unknown, based on material byCarlo Goldoni )
*Johann Adam Hiller - "Der lustige Schuster"Classical music
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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
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January 10 -Louis Massonneau , composer (died1848 )
*February 24 -Samuel Wesley , organist and composer (died1837 )
*March 28 -Joseph Weigl , composer and conductor (died1820 )
*June 19 -Edmund Weber , composer
*July 18 -Johann Anton Friedrich Fleischmann , composer (died1798 )
*July 21 -Carolina, Baroness Nairne , Scottish songwriter (died1845 )
*August 1 -Ignace Antoine Ladurner , pianist and composer (died1839 )
*August 22 -Joseph-Denis Doche , composer (died1825 )
*October 9 -Bedřich Diviš Weber , composer and founding principal of thePrague Conservatory (died1842 )
*November 16 -Rodolphe Kreutzer , violinist and composer (died1831 )
*November 20 -John Wall Callcott , composer (died1821 )Deaths
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February 26 -August Bernhard Valentin Herbing , composer (born1735 )
*March 3 -Gregor Joseph Werner , composer and leader of PrincePaul Esterhazy 's orchestra (born1693 )
*March 25 -Johannes Ritschel , composer (born1739 )
*October 7 -André Chéron , composer (born1695 )
*"date unknown" -Susannah Maria Arne , singer (born1714 )
*"date unknown" -Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer , composer (born1692 )
*"date unknown" -François Étienne Blanchet II, harpsichord maker (born1730 )
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