1777 in music
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Opera
- Agostino Accorimboni - Nitteti
- Luigi de Baillou - Il casino di campagna
- Christoph Willibald Gluck - Armide
- Joseph Haydn - Il mondo della luna
[edit] Classical music
- Michael Haydn - Missa S Hieronymi
- Gottfried August Homilius - Christmas Oratorio
- Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 ("Jeunehomme")
- Josef Mysliveček - Isacco figura del redentore (oratorio)
- Johann Baptist Vanhal - Violin Concerto in B flat
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Micah Hawkins, composer
- January 3 - Louis Poinsot, instrument maker
- January 8 - Filippo Traetta, musicologist
- April 18 - Ignac Ruzitska, composer
- May 28 - Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
- May 4 - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
- June 2 - Christian Traugott Tag, composer
- September 30 - Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
- November 5 - Filippo Taglioni, dancer and choreographer
- December 16 - János Fusz, composer
- William Russell, organist and composer
- Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina
[edit] Deaths
- January 1 - Emanuele Barbella, composer
- March 1 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil
- July 27 - William Hayes, composer (b. 1706)
- August 17 - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer
- August 23 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
- September 1 - Johann Ernst Bach
- November 30 - Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (b. 1703)
- December 21 - Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, organist (b. 1729)
- date unknown - Marco Coltellini, opera librettist (b. 1719)
