1776 in music

See also: 1775 in music, other events of 1776, 1777 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Charles Burney publishes his History of Music
• Bolshoi Theatre hosts its first annual opera season
• Court Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of Sweden
• Giovanni Paisiello is invited to the court of Catherine the Great

Popular music

• Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Toplady

Opera

• Le Due Gemelli by Antonio Tozzi
• Il Barone di Sardafritta by Gaetano Marinelli

Classical music

• The Ascension (oratorio) by James Hook
• Haffner Serenade, K.250 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Births

• January 24 – Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, author and composer
• February 18 – John Parry, composer
• February 21 – Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
• April 8 – Thaddaus Weigl, composer
• 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
• December 6 – Paul Friedrich Struck, composer

Deaths

• April 22 – Johann Adolph Scheibe, music theorist
• April 24 – Giuseppe Paolucci
• May 6 – James Kent, composer
• November 22 – Johann Caspar Simon, composer
• unknown date – Mattia Vento