1756 in music

Events

• Christoph Willibald Gluck is knighted by Pope Benedict XIV
• Johann Christian Bach settles in Italy.

Published Popular Music

• Mme Papavoine – ''Vous fuyez sans vouloir m'entendre''

Classical music

• Johann Friedrich Agricola – 6 Canzonette
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• *La Bergius, H.90
• *La Borchward, H.79
• *La Gleim, H.89
• *La Pott, H.80
• *La Prinzette, H.91
• Anna Bon – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
• Michel Corrette
• *Troisième Livre d’Orgue
• *6 Organ Concertos, Op. 26
• Baldassare Galuppi – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 1
• Joseph Haydn – Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. XVIII/1
• Marianus Königsperger – Præambulum cum fuga octavi toni
• Julien-Amable Mathieu – 6 Trios, Op. 2
• Leopold Mozart – Sinfonia di caccia
• Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli - Ariae pro organo et cembalo
• Giuseppe Sammartini – 8 Overtures in 7 Parts, Op. 10
• Elizabeth Turner – A Collection of Songs

Opera

• Pasquale Cafaro – La disfatta di Dario
• Baldassare Galuppi – Idomeneo
• Pierre van Maldere – Le Déguisement pastorale
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Zoroastre
• Antonio Sacchini – Fra Donato
• John Christopher Smith – ''The Tempest''

Publications

• Johann Friedrich Daube – General-Bass in drey Accorden
• Jacob Wilhelm Lustig – Samenspraaken over muzikaale Beginselen
• Leopold Mozart – Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – ''Suite des Erreurs sur la musique dans l'Encyclopédie''

Births

• January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer
• February 9 - Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Czech composer
• March 21 – Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann, German composer
• March 24 – Franziska Lebrun, composer and vocalist
• May 7 – Thomas Linley the younger, English composer
• June 20 – Joseph Martin Kraus, German-born composer
• September 8 – Anton Teyber, composer and organist
• September 27 – Christoffer Christian Karsten, Swedish operatic tenor
• December 30 – Paul Wranitzky, Moravian-Austrian composer
• date unknown – Joséphine-Rosalie de Walckiers, Dutch-Austrian composer

Deaths

• January 25 – Christian Vater, German organ and harpsichord builder
• April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Bolognese composer
• April 13 – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German keyboard virtuoso
• August 18 – Erdmann Neumeister, German hymnologist
• September 19 – Josef Antonín Sehling, Bohemian composter
• date unknown – Riccardo Broschi, Italian-born composer