1768 in music

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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 – considered the first American patriotic song. He used the music to the song Heart of Oak (1759), by William Boyce and David Garrick.

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 – 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

  • 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

  1. ↑ "Johann Christoph Zumpe | German-born piano maker". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
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