1768 in music

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

*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Bastien und Bastienne" (his first published opera)
*Joseph Haydn - "Lo speziale"
*Niccolò Jommelli - "Fetonte"
*Giovanni Paisiello - "Olimpia"
*Antonio Zingarelli - "I quattro pazzi"

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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