1777 in music
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Events
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart resigns his position in the Salzburg court.
- Samuel Arnold becomes musical director of the Haymarket Theatre in London.
- Ãber die Theorie der Musik by Johann Nikolaus Forkel is published in Göttingen.
- Thomas Arne and his wife are reconciled after a separation of over twenty years.
Opera
- Agostino Accorimboni â Nitteti
- Luigi de Baillou â Il casino di campagna
- Domenico Cimarosa
- L'Armida immaginaria
- Il fanatico per gli antichi romani
- I tre amanti
- Christoph Willibald Gluck â Armide
- Joseph Haydn â Il mondo della luna
- Elizabeth Ryves â The Prude
Classical music
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach â 4 Keyboard Trios, Wq.91
- Johann Christian Bach â 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 13
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach â Flute Sonata No.1 in D major
- Charles Burney â 4 Sonatas for Keyboard 4-Hands
- Giuseppe Maria Cambini â 6 Flute Quintets, Op. 8
- Michael Haydn â Missa S Hieronymi
- Gottfried August Homilius â Christmas Oratorio
- John Keeble â Diapason Movement in F major
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart â Piano Concerto No. 9 ("Jeunehomme")
- Josef MysliveÄek â Isacco figura del redentore (oratorio)
- Antonio Salieri â La Passione di Gesu Christo
- Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges â 2 Symphonies concertantes, Op. 9
- Carl Stamitz
- 6 Symphonies, Op. 13
- Clarinet Concerto No.2 in B-flat major
- Johann Baptist Wanhal â Violin Concerto in B-flat major
Popular Music
- "A-Hunting We Will Go" w.m. Thomas Arne (written for insertion into a London production of The Beggar's Opera and first sung by the contralto Mrs. Farrell playing Captain Macheath (sic.))
Methods and theory writings
- Johann Nikolaus Forkel â Ãber die Theorie der Musik
- Johann Caspar Heck â The Art of Playing Thorough Bass
- Valentin Roeser â Gamme et 12 Duo pour la Flûte Traversière
Births
- January 1 â Micah Hawkins, composer
- January 3 â Louis Poinsot, instrument maker
- January 8 â Filippo Traetta, musicologist
- January 12 â Stepan Davydov, Russian composer (died 1825)
- April 18 â Ignac Ruzitska, composer
- May 4 â Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
- May 8 â Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar, Finnish-Karelian folk singer
- May 12 â Giovanni Morandi, Italian composer (died 1856)
- May 28 â Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
- June 2 â Christian Traugott Tag, composer
- September 30 â Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
- October 3 â Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina
- October 6 â William Russell, organist and composer
- November 5 â Filippo Taglioni, dancer and choreographer
- December 16 â János Fusz, composer
Deaths
- January 1 â Emanuele Barbella, composer
- January 22 â Simon Leduc, composer violinist (born 1742)
- March 1 â Georg Christoph Wagenseil
- July 27 â William Hayes, composer (b. 1708)
- August 17 â Giuseppe Scarlatti, composer
- August 23 â Giuseppe Sellitti, composer
- September 1 â Johann Ernst Bach, composer[1]
- November â Marco Coltellini, opera librettist (b. 1724)
- November 30 â Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (b. 1703)
- December 21 â Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, organist (b. 1729)