1776 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Opera 4 Classical music 5 Births 6 Deaths

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

• Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Toplady

• The Ascension (oratorio) by James Hook

• January 24 - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, author and composer
• May 13 - Charles Ots, composer

• April 24 - Giuseppe Paolucci
• unknown date - Mattia Vento
• unknown date - John Parry