1776 - Music

Music

Vienna's Burgtheater opens, givinh the city a new opera house and concert hall. The Holy Roman Emperor Josef II has founded the theater and forbids curtain calls, feeling that he is more worthy of applause than his servants the actors.

First performances: Serenade No. 6 in D major for two Small Orchestras (Serenata Notturna) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in January at Salzburg; Serenade No. 7 in D major (Haffner) by W. A. Mozart, 7/22 at Vienna, for the marriage of Elisabeth Haffner, daughter of the late Viennese burgomaster, to F. X. Spath.

Hymn: "Rock of Ages" verses by London editor Augustus Montague Toplady, 35, are published in the February issue of The Gospel Magazine (see 1830).