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1768 in music

See also: 1767 in music, other events of 1768, 1769 in music, list of years in music.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Opera 4 Classical music 5 Births 6 Deaths

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

• Bastien und Bastienne by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (his first published opera)
• Fetonte by Niccoló Jomelli
• Lo speziale by Joseph Haydn

Classical music

• Symphonies no 7 and 8 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Births

• September 12 - Benjamin Carr, composer
• December 6 - Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer

Deaths

• March 3 - Nicola Porpora, composer
• March 14 - Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer
• October 28 - Michel Blavet, flautist and composer

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