1776 in music explained
Events
Popular music
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)
- John Hawkins – A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
Births
- January 24 – Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, author and composer
- February 18 – John Parry, composer
- February 21 – Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
- March 31 – Joseph Küffner, composer (died 1856)
- April 8 – Thaddaus Weigl, composer
- April 27 – Hyacinthe Jadin, composer (died 1800)
- 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
- August 29 – Georg Friedrich Treitschke, librettist (died 1842)
- 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
Notes and References
- Web site: 2011-12-04 . Mariinsky Theatre: History of the Theatre . Mariinsky Theatre . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111203094550/http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/about/history_theatre/mariinsky_theatre . 2011-12-03 .
- Nicholas Temperley. "Williams, Aaron." In Grove Music Online http://0-www.oxfordmusiconline.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/30338 (accessed February 3, 2012).