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Overview of the events of 1768 in music
Overview of the events of 1768 in music
Events
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
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 – Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord, piano forte and organ with accompanyments for two violins and a violoncello, Op. 2
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
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
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)