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Overview of the events of 1776 in music
Overview of the events of 1776 in music
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Popular music[]
- Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Toplady
Opera[]
Classical music[]
Methods and theory writings[]
- Charles Burney – A General History of Music, vol. 1 (vol. 2 published 1782, vols. 3 and 4 in 1789)
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
- probable – Matteo Capranica, composer
References[]
Categories:
- 1776 in music
- 18th century in music
- Music by year
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