Music year 1776

Music year 1776
Giovanni Paisiello	Antonio Tozzi

Events

March 17 : The Bolshoi Theater is founded in Moscow .
Giovanni Paisiello followed a call from Tsarina Catherine II to Saint Petersburg , where he was appointed Kapellmeister and inspector of the two Italian operas.
Charles Burney publishes the first volume of his musicological work A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period.
Luigi Boccherini follows the Infante Don Luis de Borbón into exile after he entered into an morganatic marriage .

May 7th : The world premiere of the Singspiel The Barber of Seville by Friedrich Ludwig Benda based on the play Le Barbier de Séville by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais takes place.
Madrid has dramma giocoso Le gemelle of Antonio Tozzi the libretto by Girolamo Tonioli its premiere.
The opera Germondo of Tommaso Traetta will be premiered in London.
Ignaz Pleyel - The fairy Urgèle

Luigi Boccherini - 6 string sextets op.23 (G 454–459)

March 10 : The oratorio Isacco figura del redentore by Josef Mysliveček is premiered in Florence.
March 20 : The oratorio The Ascension by James Hook premieres at Covent Garden.
April 7th : The Spatzenmesse (KV 220) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart probably has its world premiere on this date, Easter Sunday , in Salzburg Cathedral . It is a Missa brevis et solemnis .

Augustus Montague Toplady - Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concerto No. 6 in B flat major (KV 238)
- Piano Concerto No. 7 in F major, "Lodron" (KV 242)
- Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, "Lützow" (KV 246)

François-Joseph Gossec - Symphony in C major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Serenade No. 6 in D major, "Serenata notturna" (KV 239)
- Serenade No. 7 in D major, "Haffner" (KV 250 / 248b)
- Serenade No. 8 in D major, "Notturno for four orchestras" (KV 286 / 269a)
- March in D major (KV 249)

January 24 : Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann , German lawyer, writer, composer, conductor, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist († 1822 )
February 21 : Vincenzo Lavigna , Italian concertmaster and harpsichordist († 1836 )
0April 8th : Thaddäus Weigl , Austrian composer, conductor and music publisher († 1844 )
April 27 : Hyacinthe Jadin , French composer and professor († 1800 )
0May 4 : Johann Friedrich Herbart , German philosopher, psychologist and educator († 1841 )
0May 7 : Dániel Berzsenyi , Hungarian poet († 1836 )
May 10 : George Thomas Smart , English conductor, organist, violinist and composer († 1867 )
May 17 : Amos Eaton , American scientist († 1842 )
May 21 : Pierre Jean Baptiste Arnollet , French engineer († 1857 )
May 29 : Peter Erasmus Müller , Danish bishop, historian and linguist († 1834 )
0June 1 : George Schetky , American composer, cellist and music publisher († 1831 )
0August 4th : Wenzel Sedlak , Bohemian arranger and clarinetist († 1851 )
August 15 : Ignaz von Seyfried , Austrian conductor and composer († 1841 )
August 17 : Philipp Jakob Riotte , German composer († 1856 )
0December 6 : Paul Struck , German composer († 1820 )

Johann Adolph Scheibe

April 22nd : Filippo Finazzi , Italian castrato, composer and conductor (* 1705 )
April 22nd : Johann Adolph Scheibe , German-Danish composer and music critic (* 1708 )
June 11 : Leopold Widhalm , German lute and violin maker (* 1722 )
June 12 : Bartolomeo Felici , Italian composer and organist (* 1695 )
September 20 : Lucietta Affabili , Italian opera singer with a soprano voice (* 1725 )
November 22nd : Johann Caspar Simon , German composer (* 1701 )
December 13 : Karl Franz Henisch , German actor and librettist (* 1745 )

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^ Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, p. 116