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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

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)

References