1768 in music

• 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 (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) ==References==