1768 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

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Bastien und Bastienne (his first published opera)
• Joseph Haydn – Lo speziale
• Niccolò Jommelli – Fetonte
• Giovanni Paisiello – Olimpia
• Antonio Zingarelli – I quattro pazzi

Classical music

• Applausus – Joseph Haydn
• Symphonies no 7 and 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 violincello, Op. 2 – John Garth

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
• 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)

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
• October 28 – Michel Blavet, flautist and composer
• October 31 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer
• November 1 – Pierre van Maldere, composer