1776 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • September 24 – The Bolshoi Theatre Company hosts its first annual opera season, with the opening of the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St Petersburg.[1]
  • 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
  • Daniel Dow – "Money Musk"
  • Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Toplady

Opera

  • Gaetano Marinelli – Il Barone di Sardafritta
  • Giovanni Paisiello – Il finto spettro (December 26, Mannheim)
  • Ignaz Pleyel – Die Fee Urgele
  • Antonio Tozzi – Le Due Gemelli
  • Tommaso Traetta – Germondo

Classical music

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    • 6 Keyboard Trios, Wq.89
    • 3 Keyboard Trios, Wq.90
  • Johann Christian Bach – Die Amerikanerin
  • Luigi Boccherini – 6 String Quintets, G.277-282 (Op.13)
  • Felice Giardini – String Quartet in E-flat major
  • William Goodwin – Voluntary XII in D major
  • François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie de chasse; Symphonie en ré
  • Johann Wilhelm Hässler – 6 Keyboard Sonatas
  • James Hook – The Ascension (oratorio)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Haffner Serenade, K.250
  • Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 61, Hob.I:61
  • Juliane Reichardt – An den Mond
  • Antonio Salieri – La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo für Soli, vierstimmigen Chor und Orchester
  • Carl Stamitz – 6 Quartets, Op. 14
  • Daniel Gottlob Türk – 6 Keyboard Sonatas, Sammlung 1
  • Johann Adolph Hasse - Te Deum in G major

Methods and theory writings

  • Charles Burney – A General History of Music, vol. 1 (vol. 2 published 1782, vols. 3 and 4 in 1789)
  • John Hawkins – A General History of the Science and Practice of Music

Births

  • January 24 – Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, author and composer
  • February 18 – John Parry, composer
  • February 21 – Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
  • March 31 – Joseph Küffner, composer (died 1856)
  • April 8 – Thaddäus Weigl, composer
  • April 27 – Hyacinthe Jadin, composer (died 1800)
  • May 10 – George Thomas Smart, composer
  • May 12 – Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
  • May 13 – Charles Ots and Rodrigo 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
  • August 19 – Johan Peter Strömberg, dancer and theatre director
  • August 29 – Georg Friedrich Treitschke, librettist (died 1842)
  • December 6 – Paul Friedrich Struck, composer

Deaths

  • February 13 – Luis Misón, composer, 50
  • April 22 – Johann Adolph Scheibe, music theorist, 67
  • May 6 – James Kent, composer, 76
  • June 10 – Leopold Widhalm, luthier, 53
  • November 29 – Zanetta Farussi, opera singer, 69
  • date unknown
    • Thomas Capell, organist (date of birth unknown)
    • Josep Carcoler, composer, 78
    • Aaron Williams, composer, 45.[2]
  • probable – Matteo Capranica, composer

References

  1. ↑ "Mariinsky Theatre: History of the Theatre". Mariinsky Theatre. Archived from the original on 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
  2. ↑ Nicholas Temperley. "Williams, Aaron." In Grove Music Online (accessed February 3, 2012).
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