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) References 18th century in music Music by year