title: 1676 in music
text: # 1676 in music
  
  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
  
  ## 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)
  