1766 in music
Events
Opera
Classical music
- Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach – Pieces for Keyboard, Wq 117: no. 2, Solfeggio in C minor, H 220
- Claude-Bénigne Balbastre – Romance in C major
- Capel Bond – Six Concertos in Seven Parts
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Symphony in A major "nel gusto di cinque nazioni", Kr.18
- Joseph Haydn
- *Divertimento in C major, Hob.XVI:7
- *Divertimento in G major, Hob.XVI:8
- *Keyboard Concerto in F major, Hob.XVIII:6
- *Great Mass in E-flat
- Michael Haydn – Symphony in B-flat major
- Niccolò Jommelli – Missa Solemne
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- *8 Variations on "Laat ons juichen", K.24
- *7 Variations on "Willem von Nassau", K.25
- *Violin Sonata in G major, K.27
- *Violin Sonata in C major, K.28
- *Violin Sonata in B-flat major, K.31
- *Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes, K.35
- Johann Adolf Scheibe – ''Sørgekantate''
Publications
Methods and theory writings
Births
- February 24 – Samuel Wesley, organist and composer
- March 28 – Joseph Weigl, composer and conductor
- July 19 – Johann Anton Friedrich Fleischmann, composer
- July 21 – Carolina, Baroness Nairne, Scottish songwriter
- July 22 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer
- August 1 – Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist and composer
- August 22 – Joseph-Denis Doche, composer
- October 9 – Bedřich Diviš Weber, composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory
- November 16 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, violinist and composer
- November 20 – John Wall Callcott, composer
Deaths
- January 30 – Susannah Maria Arne, singer
- February 26 – August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer
- March 3 – Gregor Werner, composer and leader of Prince Paul Esterházy's orchestra
- March 20 – Giovanni Battista Pescetti, organist and composer
- March 25 – Johannes Ritschel, composer
- April – François Étienne Blanchet II, harpsichord maker
- June 23 – Thomas Roseingrave, composer and organist
- October 7 – André Chéron, composer
- November 9 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, composer
- December – Carlo Tessarini, violinist and composer
- date unknown – Alvise Giusti, librettist