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)