1756 in music
# 1756 in music

## Events

* Christoph Willibald Gluck is knighted by Pope Benedict XIV
* Johann Christian Bach settles in Italy.

## Published Popular Music

* Mme Papavoine – Vous fuyez sans vouloir m'entendre (Paris)

## Classical music

* Johann Friedrich Agricola – 6 Canzonette
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
   * La Bergius, H.90
   * La Borchward, H.79
   * La Gleim, H.89
   * La Pott, H.80
   * La Prinzette, H.91
* Anna Bon – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
* Michel Corrette
   * Troisième Livre d’Orgue
   * 6 Organ Concertos, Op. 26
* Baldassare Galuppi – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 1
* Joseph Haydn – Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. XVIII/1
* Marianus Königsperger – Præambulum cum fuga octavi toni
* Julien-Amable Mathieu – 6 Trios, Op. 2
* Leopold Mozart – Sinfonia di caccia
* Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli - Ariae pro organo et cembalo
* Giuseppe Sammartini – 8 Overtures in 7 Parts, Op. 10
* Elizabeth Turner – A Collection of Songs

## Opera

* Pasquale Cafaro – La disfatta di Dario
* Baldassare Galuppi – Idomeneo
* Pierre van Maldere – Le Déguisement pastorale
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Zoroastre
* Antonio Sacchini – Fra Donato
* John Christopher Smith – The Tempest

## Publications

* Johann Friedrich Daube – General-Bass in drey Accorden
* Jacob Wilhelm Lustig – Samenspraaken over muzikaale Beginselen
* Leopold Mozart – Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule ("A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing")
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Suite des Erreurs sur la musique dans l'Encyclopédie

## Births

* January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (died 1791)
* February 9 - Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Czech composer (died 1785)
* March 21 – Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann, German composer (died 1829)
* March 24 – Franziska Lebrun, composer and vocalist (died 1791)
* May 7 – Thomas Linley the younger, English composer (died 1778)
* June 20 – Joseph Martin Kraus, German-born composer (died 1792)
* September 8 – Anton Teyber, composer and organist (died 1822)
* September 27 – Christoffer Christian Karsten, Swedish operatic tenor (died 1827)
* December 30 – Paul Wranitzky, Moravian-Austrian composer (died 1808)
* date unknown – Joséphine-Rosalie de Walckiers, Dutch-Austrian composer (died 1836)

## Deaths

* January 25 – Christian Vater, German organ and harpsichord builder (born 1679)
* April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Bolognese composer (born 1661)
* April 13 – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German keyboard virtuoso (born 1727)
* August 18 – Erdmann Neumeister, German hymnologist (born 1671)
* September 19 – Josef Antonín Sehling, Bohemian composter (born 1710)
* date unknown – Riccardo Broschi, Italian-born composer (born c. 1698)
