See also: 1775 in music, other events of 1776, 1777 in music, list of years in music.

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

Popular music

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

Opera

• Le Due Gemelli by Antonio Tozzi
• Il Barone di Sardafritta by Gaetano Marinelli

Classical music

• The Ascension (oratorio) by James Hook

Births

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

Deaths

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