1676 in music

The year 1676 in music involved some significant events.

Events Construction of the Teatro San Angelo in Venice is completed. Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni arrives in Rieti.

Publications Thomas Mace – Musick's Monument

Published popular music

Classical music Johann Jakob Walther – Scherzi da Violino solo con il basso continuo Isabella Leonarda – Motetti a voce sola, Op.6 Johann Christoph Bach – Meine Freundin, du bist schön Dietrich Buxtehude – Jesu dulcis memoria, BuxWV 56 Nicola Matteis – Ayres for the Violin, Books 1 and 2 (Containing Diverse bizzarie sopra la vecchia sarabanda o pur ciaccona) Giovanni Legrenzi – Cantate e canzonette, Op.12 Johann Caspar Kerll Canzona in C major Ciacona in C major Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Circé, H.496 Nicolas Lebègue – Livre d'orgue No.1 Esaias Reusner – Neue Lauten-Früchte Alessandro Stradella – S. Giovanni Battista, G.3.3 Heinrich Biber – Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes Johann Philipp Krieger – Passacaglia in D minor Giovanni Battista Bassani – La Tromba della Divina misericordia

Opera Jean-Baptiste Lully Atys Isis Antonio Sartorio – Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Births January 19 – John Weldon, musician (died 1736) February 4 – Giacomo Facco, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1753) April 4 – Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, opera composer (died 1760) May 23 – Johann Bernhard Bach, composer, cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1749)

Deaths January 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (born 1602) June 7 – Paul Gerhardt, Germany's best-known hymn-writer (born 1606) October 6 – Claudia Rusca, singer, composer and organist (born 1593) October 10 – Sebastian Knüpfer, composer (born 1633)

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