1756 in music

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List of years in music (table)
... 1746 ^. 1747 ^. 1748 ^. 1749 ^. 1750 ^. 1751 ^. 1752 ... 1753 1754 1755 -1756- 1757 1758 1759 ... 1760 ^. 1761 ^. 1762 ^. 1763 ^. 1764 ^. 1765 ^. 1766 ...
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Events

Christoph Willibald Gluck is knighted by Pope Benedict XIV
Johann Christian Bach settles in Italy.

Classical music

Joseph Haydn – Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. XVIII/1

Opera

Pasquale Cafaro – La disfatta di Dario
Baldassare Galuppi – Idomeneo
Pierre van Maldere – Le Déguisement pastorale
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Zoroastre
Antonio Sacchini – Fra Donato

Births

January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died 1791)
May 7 – Thomas Linley the younger (died 1778)
June 20 – Joseph Martin Kraus (died 1792)
Christoffer Christian Karsten (died 1827)

Deaths

January 25 – Christian Vater, organ and harpsichord builder (born 1679)
April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer (born 1661)
August 18 – Erdmann Neumeister, hymnologist (born 1671)
September 19 – Josef Antonin Sehling
April 15 – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (born 1727)
date unknown – Riccardo Broschi, composer (born c. 1698)

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