1776 in music

Events

Charles Burney publishes his History of Music
Bolshoi Theatre hosts its first annual opera season
Court Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of Sweden
Giovanni Paisiello is invited to the court of Catherine the Great

Popular music

Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Toplady

Opera

Gaetano Marinelli - Il Barone di Sardafritta
Ignaz Pleyel - Die Fee Urgele
Antonio Tozzi - Le Due Gemelli
Tommaso Traetta - Germondo

Classical music

François Joseph Gossec - Symphonie de chasse; Symphonie en ré
James Hook - The Ascension (oratorio)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Haffner Serenade, K.250

Births

January 24 - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, author and composer
February 18 - John Parry, composer
February 21 - Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
April 8 - Thaddaus Weigl, composer
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
19 August - Johan Peter Strömberg, dancer and theatre director
December 6 - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer

Deaths

April 22 - Johann Adolph Scheibe, music theorist
May 6 - James Kent, composer
June 10 - Leopold Widhalm, luthier (b. 1722)
November 22 - Johann Caspar Simon, composer

Translation of "1776 in music"

Albanian: 1776 në muzikë.