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1676 in music 
Summary
The year 1676 in music involved some significant events.
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Events edit
- Construction of the Teatro San Angelo in Venice is completed.
- Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni arrives in Rieti.
Publications edit
- Thomas Mace – Musick's Monument
Published popular music edit
Classical music edit
- 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 (Containing Diverse bizzarie sopra la vecchia sarabanda o pur ciaccona)
- 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 edit
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Antonio Sartorio – Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Births edit
- January 19 – John Weldon, musician (died 1736)
- February 4 – Giacomo Facco, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1753)
- April 4 – Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, opera composer (died 1760)
- May 23 – Johann Bernhard Bach, composer, cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1749)
Deaths edit
- January 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (born 1602)
- June 7 – Paul Gerhardt, Germany's best-known hymn-writer (born 1606)
- October 6 – Claudia Rusca, singer, composer and organist (born 1593)
- October 10 – Sebastian Knüpfer, composer (born 1633)[1]