1776 in music
# 1776 in music

## Events

* September 24 – The Bolshoi Theatre Company hosts its first annual opera season, with the opening of the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St Petersburg.
* 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

## Popular music

* 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 – Thaddaus 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.
* probable – Matteo Capranica, composer
