# 1768 in music

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. He used the music to the song Heart of Oak (1759), by William Boyce and David Garrick.

## 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 – Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord, piano forte and organ with accompanyments for two violins and a violoncello, Op. 2
* 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)