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1777 in music

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Events

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart resigns his position in the Salzburg court.
  • Samuel Arnold becomes musical director of the Haymarket Theatre in London.
  • Über die Theorie der Musik by Johann Nikolaus Forkel is published in Göttingen.
  • Thomas Arne and his wife are reconciled after a separation of over twenty years.

Opera

  • Agostino Accorimboni – Nitteti
  • Luigi de Baillou – Il casino di campagna
  • Domenico Cimarosa
    • L'Armida immaginaria
    • Il fanatico per gli antichi romani
    • I tre amanti
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck – Armide
  • Joseph Haydn – Il mondo della luna
  • Elizabeth Ryves – The Prude

Classical music

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – 4 Keyboard Trios, Wq.91
  • Johann Christian Bach – 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 13
  • Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach – Flute Sonata No.1 in D major
  • Charles Burney – 4 Sonatas for Keyboard 4-Hands
  • Giuseppe Maria Cambini – 6 Flute Quintets, Op. 8
  • Michael Haydn – Missa S Hieronymi
  • Gottfried August Homilius – Christmas Oratorio
  • John Keeble – Diapason Movement in F major
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 9 ("Jeunehomme")
  • Josef Mysliveček – Isacco figura del redentore (oratorio)
  • Antonio Salieri – La Passione di Gesu Christo
  • Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges – 2 Symphonies concertantes, Op. 9
  • Carl Stamitz
    • 6 Symphonies, Op. 13
    • Clarinet Concerto No.2 in B-flat major
  • Johann Baptist Wanhal – Violin Concerto in B-flat major

Methods and theory writings

  • Johann Nikolaus Forkel – Über die Theorie der Musik
  • Johann Caspar Heck – The Art of Playing Thorough Bass
  • Valentin Roeser – Gamme et 12 Duo pour la Flûte Traversière

Births

  • January 1 – Micah Hawkins, composer
  • January 3 – Louis Poinsot, instrument maker
  • January 8 – Filippo Traetta, musicologist
  • January 12 – Stepan Davydov, Russian composer (died 1825)
  • April 18 – Ignac Ruzitska, composer
  • May 4 – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
  • May 8 – Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar, Finnish-Karelian folk singer
  • May 12 – Giovanni Morandi, Italian composer (died 1856)
  • May 28 – Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
  • June 2 – Christian Traugott Tag, composer
  • September 30 – Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
  • October 3 – Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina
  • October 6 – William Russell, organist and composer
  • November 5 – Filippo Taglioni, dancer and choreographer
  • December 16 – János Fusz, composer

Deaths

  • January 1 – Emanuele Barbella, composer
  • January 22 – Simon Leduc, composer violinist (born 1742)
  • March 1 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil
  • July 27 – William Hayes, composer (b. 1708)
  • August 17 – Giuseppe Scarlatti, composer
  • August 23 – Giuseppe Sellitti, composer
  • September 1 – Johann Ernst Bach, composer
  • November – Marco Coltellini, opera librettist (b. 1724)
  • November 30 – Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (b. 1703)
  • December 21 – Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, organist (b. 1729)
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