1768 in music

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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.

"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.

Applausus – Joseph Haydn
Symphonies No. 7 and No. 8 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cello Concerto in D Major – Luigi Boccherini
Sonata for Harpsichord in G major – Muzio Clementi
Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord, piano forte and organ with accompanyments for two violins and a violoncello, Op. 2 – John Garth

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
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)

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