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 traditional British song, Hearts of Oak.

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 –
 * 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)