This is a list of music related events in 1768.
Events Johann Christian Bach gives the first ever solo piano performance in London, on an instrument by Johannes Zumpe. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family are resident in Vienna until December. Antonio Sacchini returns to Venice to become director of the Conservatorio dell'Ospadeletto. Giuseppe Tartini suffers a stroke. Michael Haydn marries Maria Magdalena Lipp, a singer and the daughter of the court organist.
Popular music "The Liberty Song", with words by John Dickinson – considered the first American patriotic song.
Opera
Johann Adolf Hasse – Piramo e Tisbe Joseph Haydn – Lo speziale Niccolò Jommelli Fetonte La schiava liberata Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Bastien und Bastienne, K. 50/46b (his first published opera) La finta semplice, K.51/46a Giovanni Paisiello – Olimpia Antonio Zingarelli – I quattro pazzi
Classical music Luigi Boccherini Cello Concerto in D Major Cello Sonata in C major, G.6 6 Violin Sonatas, G.25-30, Op. 5 Muzio Clementi – Sonata for Harpsichord in G major John Garth – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi – 6 Harpsichord Quartets, Op. 1 Joseph Haydn Applausus 6 String Trios, Op. 5 Symphony No.49 in F minor, Hob.I:49 "La passione", "Il quakuo di bel'humore" Michael Haydn – Missa sancti Francisci Seraphici, MH 119 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphonies No. 7 and No. 8 Friedrich Schwindl – 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 5
Methods and theory writings
William Hayes – Anecdotes of the 5 Music-Meetings Johann Caspar Heck – A Complete System of Harmony Gabriele Leone Méthode raisonnée pour passer du Violon à la Mandoline (Rational method for migrating from the violin to the mandolin) Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Dictionnaire de musique Francisco Inácio Solano – Nova arte, e breve compendio de musica
Births January 16 – Carl Andreas Göpfert, German composer (died 1818) March 12 – Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer April 7 – Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer July 6 – Johann Georg Heinrich Backofen, composer and clarinetist (died 1830) September 1 – Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer September 12 – Benjamin Carr, composer September 14 – Georg Johann Schinn, composer September 21 – Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, composer, pianist and harpsichordist (c. 1863) November 24 – Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer December 6 – Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer date unknown Gaetano Crivelli, operatic tenor (d. 1836) Margarethe Danzi, collaborator and composer (died 1800)
Deaths January 1 – Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer January 28 – John Wainwright, composer March 3 – Nicola Porpora, composer March 14 – Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer July 6 – Johann Conrad Beissel, composer July 11 – José Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer August 21 (buried) – William Walond, English composer (born 1719) October 28 – Michel Blavet, flautist and composer October 31 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer November 1 – Pierre van Maldere, composer probable – Domenico Gallo, composer and musician (born 1730)
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