1768 in music

See also: 1767 in music, other events of 1768, 1769 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• 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

• Bastien und Bastienne by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (his first published opera)
• Fetonte by Niccoló Jomelli
• Lo speziale by Joseph Haydn
• Olimpia by Giovanni Paisiello

Classical music

• Applausus – Joseph Haydn
• Symphonies no 7 and 8 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Cello Concerto in D Major – Luigi Boccherini
• Sonata for Harpsichord in G major – Muzio Clementi

Births

• 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
• November 24 – Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer
• December 6 – Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer

Deaths

• January 1 – Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer
• January 28 – John Wainwright, composer
• March 3 – Nicola Porpora, composer
• March 14 – Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer
• April 7 – Michel Mathieu, composer
• July 6 – Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
• July 11 – Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer
• October 28 – Michel Blavet, flautist and composer
• October 31 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer
• November 1 – Pierre van Maldere, composer