1768 in music
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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
- October 31 - Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer
