1777 in music
# 1777 in music

## Events

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart resigns his position in the Salzburg court.
* Samuel Arnold becomes musical director of the Haymarket Theatre in London.
* Über 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 – Nitteti
* Luigi de Baillou – Il casino di campagna
* Domenico Cimarosa
   * L'Armida immaginaria
   * Il fanatico per gli antichi romani
   * I tre amanti
* Christoph Willibald Gluck – Armide
* Joseph Haydn – Il mondo della luna
* Elizabeth Ryves – The Prude

## Classical music

* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – 4 Keyboard Trios, Wq.91
* Johann Christian Bach – 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 13
* Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach – Flute Sonata No.1 in D major
* Charles Burney – 4 Sonatas for Keyboard 4-Hands
* Giuseppe Maria Cambini – 6 Flute Quintets, Op. 8
* Michael Haydn – Missa S Hieronymi
* Gottfried August Homilius – Christmas Oratorio
* John Keeble – Diapason Movement in F major
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 9 ("Jeunehomme")
* Josef Mysliveček – Isacco figura del redentore (oratorio)
* Antonio Salieri – La Passione di Gesu Christo
* Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges – 2 Symphonies concertantes, Op. 9
* Carl Stamitz
   * 6 Symphonies, Op. 13
   * Clarinet Concerto No.2 in B-flat major
* Johann Baptist Wanhal – 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 – Über die Theorie der Musik
* Johann Caspar Heck – The Art of Playing Thorough Bass
* Valentin Roeser – Gamme et 12 Duo pour la Flûte Traversière

## Births

* January 1 – Micah Hawkins, composer
* January 3 – Louis Poinsot, instrument maker
* January 8 – Filippo Traetta, musicologist
* January 12 – Stepan Davydov, Russian composer (died 1825)
* April 18 – Ignac Ruzitska, composer
* May 4 – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
* May 8 – Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar, Finnish-Carelian Folksinger
* May 12 – Giovanni Morandi, Italian composer (died 1856)
* May 28 – Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
* June 2 – Christian Traugott Tag, composer
* September 30 – Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
* October 3 – Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina
* October 6 – William Russell, organist and composer
* November 5 – Filippo Taglioni, dancer and choreographer
* December 16 – János Fusz, composer

## Deaths

* January 1 – Emanuele Barbella, composer
* January 22 – Simon Leduc, composer violinist (born 1742)
* March 1 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil
* July 27 – William Hayes, composer (b. 1708)
* August 17 – Giuseppe Scarlatti, composer
* August 23 – Giuseppe Sellitti, composer
* September 1 – Johann Ernst Bach, composer
* November – Marco Coltellini, opera librettist (b. 1724)
* November 30 – Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (b. 1703)
* December 21 – Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, organist (b. 1729)
