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.
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
- *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
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Dictionnaire de musique
- Francisco Inácio Solano – ''Nova arte, e breve compendio de musica''
Births
- January 16 – Carl Andreas Göpfert, German composer
- March 12 – Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
- April 7 – Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
- July 6 – Johann Georg Heinrich Backofen, composer and clarinetist
- 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
- November 24 – Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer
- December 6 – Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer
- date unknown
- *Gaetano Crivelli, operatic tenor
- *Margarethe Danzi, collaborator and composer
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 – William Walond, English composer
- 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