1676 in music

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
• 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
• February 4 – Giacomo Facco, violinist, conductor and composer
• April 4 – Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, opera composer
• May 23 – Johann Bernhard Bach, composer, cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach

Deaths

• January 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer
• June 7 – Paul Gerhardt, Germany's best-known hymn-writer
• October 6 – Claudia Rusca, singer, composer and organist
• October 10 – Sebastian Knüpfer, composer