- 1768 in music
Events
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family are resident inVienna until December.
*Antonio Sacchini returns toVenice 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
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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 byWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
*"Cello Concerto in D Major" -Luigi Boccherini
*"Sonata for Harpsichord in G major" -Muzio Clementi Births
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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 , composerDeaths
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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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