1768 In Music

Events

• 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 traditional British song, Hearts of Oak.

Opera

• Bastien und Bastienne by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (his first published opera)
• Fetonte by Niccol Jomelli
• Lo speziale by Joseph Haydn
• Olimpia by Giovanni Paisiello

Classical music

• Applausus - Joseph Haydn
• Symphonies no 7 and 8 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Cello Concerto in D Major - Luigi Boccherini
• Sonata for Harpsichord in G major - Muzio Clementi

Births

• March 12 - Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
• April 7 - Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
• September 1 - Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
• September 12 - Benjamin Carr, composer
• September 14 - Georg Johann Schinn, composer
• November 24 - Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer
• December 6 - Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer

Deaths

• January 1 - Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer
• January 28 - John Wainwright, composer
• March 3 - Nicola Porpora, composer
• March 14 - Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer
• April 7 - Michel Mathieu, composer
• July 6 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
• July 11 - Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer
• October 28 - Michel Blavet, flautist and composer
• October 31 - Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer
• November 1 - Pierre van Maldere, composer

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