1756 in music

List of years in music (table)
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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)
September 27 - Christoffer Christian Karsten (died 1827)

Deaths

January 25 – Christian Vater, organ and harpsichord builder (born 1679)
April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer (born 1661)
April 13 – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (born 1727)
August 18 – Erdmann Neumeister, hymnologist (born 1671)
September 19 – Josef Antonin Sehling
date unknown – Riccardo Broschi, composer (born c. 1698)