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