1776 in music
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Events
- Giovanni Paisiello is invited to the court of Catherine the Great, where he will stay for eight years.
- Court Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of Sweden
Popular music
- Daniel Dow â "Money Musk"
- Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Toplady
Opera
- Gaetano Marinelli â Il Barone di Sardafritta
- Giovanni Paisiello â Il finto spettro (December 26, Mannheim)
- Ignaz Pleyel â Die Fee Urgele
- Antonio Tozzi â Le Due Gemelli
- Tommaso Traetta â Germondo
Classical music
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- 6 Keyboard Trios, Wq.89
- 3 Keyboard Trios, Wq.90
- Johann Christian Bach â Die Amerikanerin
- Luigi Boccherini â 6 String Quintets, G.277-282 (Op.13)
- Felice Giardini â String Quartet in E-flat major
- William Goodwin â Voluntary XII in D major
- François Joseph Gossec â Symphonie de chasse; Symphonie en ré
- Johann Wilhelm Hässler â 6 Keyboard Sonatas
- James Hook â The Ascension (oratorio)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concerto No. 8 ("Lützow"), K.246
- Haffner Serenade, K.250
- Joseph Haydn â Symphony No. 61, Hob.I:61
- Juliane Reichardt â An den Mond
- Antonio Salieri â La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo für Soli, vierstimmigen Chor und Orchester
- Carl Stamitz â 6 Quartets, Op. 14
- Daniel Gottlob Türk â 6 Keyboard Sonatas, Sammlung 1
- Johann Adolph Hasse - Te Deum in G major
Methods and theory writings
- Charles Burney â A General History of Music, vol. 1 (vol. 2 published 1782, vols. 3 and 4 in 1789)
- John Hawkins â A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
Births
- January 24 â Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, author and composer
- February 18 â John Parry, composer
- February 21 â Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
- March 31 â Joseph Küffner, composer (died 1856)
- April 8 â Thaddäus Weigl, composer
- April 27 â Hyacinthe Jadin, composer (died 1800)
- May 10 â George Thomas Smart, composer
- May 12 â Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
- May 13 â Charles Ots and Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composers
- June 1 â John George Schetky, composer
- August 4 â Wenzel Sedlak, composer
- August 15 â Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer
- August 16 â Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer
- August 19 â Johan Peter Strömberg, dancer and theatre director
- August 29 â Georg Friedrich Treitschke, librettist (died 1842)
- December 6 â Paul Friedrich Struck, composer
Deaths
- February 13 â Luis Misón, composer, 50
- April 22 â Johann Adolph Scheibe, music theorist, 67
- May 6 â James Kent, composer, 76
- June 10 â Leopold Widhalm, luthier, 53
- November 29 â Zanetta Farussi, opera singer, 69
- date unknown
- Thomas Capell, organist (date of birth unknown)
- Josep Carcoler, composer, 78
- Aaron Williams, composer, 45[1]