1766 in music

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Joseph Haydn becomes Kapellmeister to the Esterházys. The orchestra is increased to 22 players.
Niccolò Piccinni is invited to Paris by Queen Marie Antoinette.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes the first act of an oratorio, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, to be completed by Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser.

Egidio Romualdo Duni - La clochette
Joseph Haydn - La Canterina (libretto by an unknown, based on material by Carlo Goldoni)
Johann Adam Hiller - Der lustige Schuster

Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach - Pieces (40) for Keyboard, Wq 117: no 2, Solfeggio in C minor, H 220
Capel Bond - Six Concertos in Seven Parts
Joseph Haydn - Great Mass in E flat
Michael Haydn - Symphony in B flat major
Niccolò Jommelli - Missa Solemne

January 10 - Louis Massonneau, composer (died 1848)
February 24 - Samuel Wesley, organist and composer (died 1837)
March 28 - Joseph Weigl, composer and conductor (died 1820)
June 19 - Edmund Weber, composer
July 18 - Johann Anton Friedrich Fleischmann, composer (died 1798)
July 21 - Carolina, Baroness Nairne, Scottish songwriter (died 1845)
August 1 - Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist and composer (died 1839)
August 22 - Joseph-Denis Doche, composer (died 1825)
October 9 - Bedřich Diviš Weber, composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory (died 1842)
November 16 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, violinist and composer (died 1831)
November 20 - John Wall Callcott, composer (died 1821)

February 26 - August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer (born 1735)
March 3 - Gregor Joseph Werner, composer and leader of Prince Paul Esterhazy's orchestra (born 1693)
March 25 - Johannes Ritschel, composer (born 1739)
October 7 - André Chéron, composer (born 1695)
date unknown - Susannah Maria Arne, singer (born 1714)
date unknown - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, composer (born 1692)
date unknown - François Étienne Blanchet II, harpsichord maker (born 1730)