The year 1676 in music involved some significant events.
Events
Construction of the Teatro San Angelo in Venice is completed. Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni arrives in Rieti.
Publications
Thomas Mace – Musick's Monument
Published popular music
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 (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
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Atys
Isis
Antonio Sartorio – Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Births
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
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)