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.^[1]
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 â considered the first American patriotic song.

Luigi Boccherini
- Cello Concerto in D Major
- Cello Sonata in C major, G.6
- 6 Violin Sonatas, G.25-30, Op. 5
Muzio Clementi â Sonata for Harpsichord in G major
John Garth â Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord, piano forte and organ with accompanyments for two violins and a violoncello, Op. 2
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi â 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 â Missa sancti Francisci Seraphici, MH 119
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart â Symphonies No. 7 and No. 8
Friedrich Schwindl â 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 5

William Hayes â Anecdotes of the 5 Music-Meetings
Johann Caspar Heck â A Complete System of Harmony
Gabriele Leone MÃ©thode raisonnÃ©e pour passer du Violon Ã la Mandoline (Rational method for migrating from the violin to the mandolin)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau â Dictionnaire de musique
Francisco InÃ¡cio Solano â Nova arte, e breve compendio de musica

January 16 â Carl Andreas GÃ¶pfert, German composer (died 1818)
March 12 â Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
April 7 â Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
July 6 â Johann Georg Heinrich Backofen, composer and clarinetist (died 1830)
September 1 â Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
September 12 â Benjamin Carr, composer
September 14 â Georg Johann Schinn, composer
September 21 â Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, composer, pianist and harpsichordist (c. 1863)
November 24 â Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer
December 6 â Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer
date unknown
- Gaetano Crivelli, operatic tenor (d. 1836)
- Margarethe Danzi, collaborator and composer (died 1800)