1768 in music
Overview of the events of 1768 in music
Overview of the events of 1768 in music
This is a list of music related events in 1768.
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
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
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
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