1756 in music

Events

 * Christoph Willibald Gluck is knighted by Pope Benedict XIV
 * Johann Christian Bach settles in Italy.

Published Popular Music

 * Mme Papavoine – Vous fuyez sans vouloir m'entendre (Paris)

Classical music

 * Johann Friedrich Agricola – 6 Canzonette
 * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
 * La Bergius, H.90
 * La Borchward, H.79
 * La Gleim, H.89
 * La Pott, H.80
 * La Prinzette, H.91
 * Anna Bon – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
 * Michel Corrette
 * Troisième Livre d’Orgue
 * 6 Organ Concertos, Op. 26
 * Baldassare Galuppi – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 1
 * Joseph Haydn – Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. XVIII/1
 * Marianus Königsperger – Præambulum cum fuga octavi toni
 * Julien-Amable Mathieu – 6 Trios, Op. 2
 * Leopold Mozart – Sinfonia di caccia
 * Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli - Ariae pro organo et cembalo
 * Giuseppe Sammartini – 8 Overtures in 7 Parts, Op. 10
 * Elizabeth Turner – A Collection of Songs

Opera

 * Pasquale Cafaro – La disfatta di Dario
 * Baldassare Galuppi – Idomeneo
 * Pierre van Maldere – Le Déguisement pastorale
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau – Zoroastre
 * Antonio Sacchini – Fra Donato
 * John Christopher Smith – The Tempest

Publications

 * Johann Friedrich Daube – General-Bass in drey Accorden
 * Jacob Wilhelm Lustig – Samenspraaken over muzikaale Beginselen
 * Leopold Mozart – Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule ("A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing")
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau – Suite des Erreurs sur la musique dans l'Encyclopédie

Births

 * January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (died 1791)
 * February 9 - Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Czech composer (died 1785)
 * March 21 – Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann, German composer (died 1829)
 * March 24 – Franziska Lebrun, composer and vocalist (died 1791)
 * May 7 – Thomas Linley the younger, English composer (died 1778)
 * June 20 – Joseph Martin Kraus, German-born composer (died 1792)
 * September 8 – Anton Teyber, composer and organist (died 1822)
 * September 27 – Christoffer Christian Karsten, Swedish operatic tenor (died 1827)
 * December 30 – Paul Wranitzky, Moravian-Austrian composer (died 1808)
 * 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)