1756 in music
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Events
- Christoph Willibald Gluck is knighted by Pope Benedict XIV
- Johann Christian Bach settles in Italy.
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn – Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. XVIII/1
Opera
- Pasquale Cafaro – La disfatta di Dario
- Baldassare Galuppi – Idomeneo
- Pierre van Maldere – Le Déguisement pastorale
- Jean-Philippe Rameau – Zoroastre
- Antonio Sacchini – Fra Donato
Publications
- Leopold Mozart – Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule ("A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing")
Births
- January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (died 1791)
- May 7 – Thomas Linley the younger, English composer (died 1778)
- June 20 – Joseph Martin Kraus, German-born composer (died 1792)
- September 27 – Christoffer Christian Karsten, Swedish operatic tenor (died 1827)
- date unknown – Joséphine-Rosalie de Walckiers, Dutch-Austrian composer (died 1836)
Deaths
- January 25 – Christian Vater, German organ and harpsichord builder (born 1679)
- April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Bolognese composer (born 1661)
- April 13 – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German keyboard virtuoso (born 1727)
- August 18 – Erdmann Neumeister, German hymnologist (born 1671)
- September 19 – Josef Antonín Sehling, Bohemian composter (born 1710)
- date unknown – Riccardo Broschi, Italian-born composer (born c. 1698)
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