1676 in music
The year 1676 in music involved some significant events.Events
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
- 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
