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1768 in music
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December 28, 2025
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Events
Popular music
Opera
Classical music
Methods and theory writings
Births
Deaths
References
Overview of the events of 1768 in music
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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
.
[
1
]
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
–
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)
References
↑
"Johann Christoph Zumpe | German-born piano maker"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
13 January
2021
.
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