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
Births
- January 27 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died 1791)
- May 7 - Thomas Linley the younger (died 1778)
- June 20 - Joseph Martin Kraus (died 1792)
Deaths
- January 25 - Christian Vater, organ and harpsichord builder (born 1679)
- April 10 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer (born 1661)
- August 18 - Erdmann Neumeister, hymnologist (born 1671)
- September 19 - Josef Antonin Sehling
- April 15 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (born 1727)
- date unknown - Riccardo Broschi, composer (born c. 1698)