1776 in music
See also: 1775 in music, other events of 1776, 1777 in music, list of years in music. Events Charles Burney publishes his History of MusicBolshoi Theatre hosts its first annual opera seasonCourt Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of SwedenGiovanni 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 Le Due Gemelli by Antonio TozziIl Barone di Sardafritta by Gaetano Marinelli
Classical music The Ascension (oratorio) by James HookHaffner 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
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