1676 in music
# 1676 in music

The year 1676 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Construction of the Teatro San Angelo in Venice is completed.
* Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni arrives in Rieti.

## Publications

* Thomas Mace – Musick's Monument

## Classical music

* Johann Jakob Walther – Scherzi da Violino solo con il basso continuo
* Isabella Leonarda – Motetti a voce sola, Op.6
* Johann Christoph Bach – Meine Freundin, du bist schön
* Dietrich Buxtehude – Jesu dulcis memoria, BuxWV 56
* Nicola Matteis – Ayres for the Violin, Books 1 and 2 (Containing Diverse bizzarie sopra la vecchia sarabanda o pur ciaccona)
* Giovanni Legrenzi – Cantate e canzonette, Op.12
* Johann Caspar Kerll
   * Canzona in C major
   * Ciacona in C major
* Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Circé, H.496
* Nicolas Lebègue – Livre d'orgue No.1
* Esaias Reusner – Neue Lauten-Früchte
* Alessandro Stradella – S. Giovanni Battista, G.3.3
* Heinrich Biber – Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes
* Johann Philipp Krieger – Passacaglia in D minor
* Giovanni Battista Bassani – La Tromba della Divina misericordia

## Opera

* Jean-Baptiste Lully
   * Atys
   * Isis
* Antonio Sartorio – Giulio Cesare in Egitto

## Births

* January 19 – John Weldon, musician (died 1736)
* February 4 – Giacomo Facco, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1753)
* April 4 – Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, opera composer (died 1760)
* May 23 – Johann Bernhard Bach, composer, cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1749)

## Deaths

* January 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (born 1602)
* June 7 – Paul Gerhardt, Germany's best-known hymn-writer (born 1606)
* October 6 – Claudia Rusca, singer, composer and organist (born 1593)
* October 10 – Sebastian Knüpfer, composer (born 1633)
