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This article is about music-related events in 1876.

Events

February – Baritone Lithgow James^[1] joins the English Opera Company, where he begins a partnership with his future wife Florence St. John.
April - Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake
February 24 – Incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt premieres.
May 17 – Antonín Dvořák begins composing his Moravian Duets.
August 16 – Richard Wagner's Siegfried debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
August 17 – Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
Soprano Rosa Hasselbeck marries the conductor and composer Josef Sucher.

January 12
- Annie Krull, operatic soprano (died 1947)
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer (died 1948)
January 19 – Rosina Storchio, Italian lyric soprano (died 1945)
January 29
- Havergal Brian, composer (died 1972)
- Ludolf Nielsen, composer (died 1939)
February 2 – Giovanni Zenatello, tenor (died 1949)
February 28 – John Alden Carpenter, composer
March 11 – Carl Ruggles, composer (died 1971)
May 17 – Carrie Tubb, soprano (died 1976)
May 19 – Jan Ingenhoven, Dutch composer and conductor
June 2 – Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (died 1954)
June 5 – Tony Jackson, jazz musician (died 1920)
August 14 – Florrie Forde, Australian-born English music hall singer (died 1940)
August 16 – Karl Hoschna, Bohemian-born US composer
September 15 – Bruno Walter, conductor (died 1962)
November 23 – Manuel de Falla, composer (died 1946)
December 11 – Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer (died 1909)
December 29
- Pablo Casals, cellist (died 1973)
- Lionel Tertis, violist (died 1975)

February 28 – Raimondo Boucheron, composer, 75
March 5
- Francesco Maria Piave, librettist and friend of Giuseppe Verdi, 65
- Marie d'Agoult, lover of Franz Liszt and mother of Cosima Wagner, 70
March 28 – Joseph Böhm, violinist, 80
April 19 – Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer, 65
June 28 – August Wilhelm Ambros, composer and music historian, 69
August 29 – Félicien-César David, composer, 66
September 9 – Mary Shaw, operatic contralto, 62
September 30 – Henri Bertini, pianist and composer, 77
October 1 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder, 80
November 8 – Antonio Tamburini, operatic baritone, 76
November 9 – Édouard Batiste, organist and composer, 56
November 18 – Nicolas Bosret, blind organist and composer, 77
December 3 – Hermann Goetz, composer, 35 (tuberculosis)
December 14 – George Frederick Anderson, violinist, 83

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