1777 in music
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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.
Opera
- Agostino Accorimboni – Nitteti
- Luigi de Baillou – Il casino di campagna
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Armide
- Joseph Haydn – Il mondo della luna
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 Wanhal – Violin Concerto in B flat
Popular Music
- "A-Hunting We Will Go" w.m. Thomas Arne (written for insertion into a London production of The Beggar's Opera and first sung by the contralto Mrs. Farrell playing Captain Macheath (sic.))
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
- October 3 - Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina
- November 5 – Filippo Taglioni, dancer and choreographer
- December 16 – János Fusz, composer
- Unknown - William Russell, organist and composer
Deaths
- January 1 – Emanuele Barbella, composer
- March 1 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil
- July 27 – William Hayes, composer (b. 1706)
- August 17 – Giuseppe Scarlatti, composer
- August 23 – Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
- September 1 – Johann Ernst Bach, composer
- November – Marco Coltellini, opera librettist (b. 1719)
- November 30 – Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (b. 1703)
- December 21 – Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, organist (b. 1729)
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