1776 in music

Events

• September 24 - The Bolshoi Theatre company hosts its first annual opera season, with the opening of the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St Petersburg.^[1]
• December 26 - Giovanni Paisiello's opera Il finto spettro, is premièred in Mannheim. Paisiello has already been invited to the court of Catherine the Great.
• Charles Burney publishes his History of Music
• Court Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of Sweden

Popular music

• Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Topladyfat cats

Opera

• Gaetano Marinelli – Il Barone di Sardafritta
• Ignaz Pleyel – Die Fee Urgele
• Antonio Tozzi – Le Due Gemelli
• Tommaso Traetta – Germondo

Classical music

• François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie de chasse; Symphonie en ré
• James Hook – The Ascension (oratorio)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Haffner Serenade, K.250

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
• August 19 – Johan Peter Strömberg, dancer and theatre director
• December 6 – Paul Friedrich Struck, composer

Deaths

• February 13 – Luis Misón, composer, 50
• April 22 – Johann Adolph Scheibe, music theorist, 67
• May 6 – James Kent, composer, 76
• June 10 – Leopold Widhalm, luthier, 53
• November 29 - Zanetta Farussi, opera singer, 69
• date unknown
  • Thomas Capell, organist (date of birth unknown)
  • Josep Carcoler, composer, 78
  • Aaron Williams, composer, 45.^[2]
• probable - Matteo Capranica, composer

References