Music year 1768
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
The Haydns
- Autumn: The opera house in Eszterháza opens with the premiere of the Opera buffa Lo Speziale (The Pharmacist) by Joseph Haydn .
- The Salzburg court composer Michael Haydn marries the court singer Maria Magdalena Lipp, daughter of the court organist Franz Ignaz Lipp.
The Mozarts
- January 10th : After the children had survived the previous year's smallpox disease, Leopold Mozart and his family returned to Vienna from Bohemia.
- January 16 : The twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart probably completes his 7th symphony ( KV 45) on this day .
- December 7th : In Vienna, Prince Archbishop Christoph Anton von Migazzi inaugurates the orphanage church . However , there is no evidence for the traditional description that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his orphanage mass for this purpose .
- Presumably on December 7th, the world premiere of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Singspiel Bastien und Bastienne will take place in Schwechat near Vienna . The libretto is by Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern , Johann Heinrich Müller and Johann Andreas Schachtner. It is based on Charles-Simon Favarts , Marie Justine Benoîte Favarts and Harny de Guervilles Les amours de Bastien et Bastienne , a parody of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's one-act opera Le devin du village (The Village Fortune Teller). The Singspiel consists of one act and is written in German. Leopold Mozart calls it an operetta , for the librettist Weiskern it is “a French opera comique ”. This genre is very fashionable at this point.
- December 13th : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart probably completes his 8th symphony ( KV 48) on this day .
- In the same year Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the opera La finta semplice . At the suggestion of Emperor Joseph II , he did this for the first time in the style of opera buffa . Due to intrigues, however, the work will not be performed until next year.
Further world premieres
- January: The world premiere of the libretto Adriano in Siria by Pietro Metastasio in the setting by Hieronymus Mango takes place in Eichstätt . Another setting by Ignaz Holzbauer will be premiered on November 5th at the Hoftheater in Mannheim.
- Carnival: Pietro Metastasio's libretto La clemenza di Tito will be premiered in the setting by Andrea Bernasconi under the name Die Gütigkeit des Titus at the Hoftheater in Munich.
- March 18 : The Oratory Abimelech of Samuel Arnold is at King's Theater in the Haymarket premiered in London.
- May 18th : The comic opera Die Liebe auf dem Lande by Johann Adam Hiller has its world premiere in Leipzig.
- The second version of the opera Solimano by Davide Perez has its world premiere in the Palazzo Ajuda in Lisbon. The libretto is by Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca . Perez's second version of the Solimano libretto is widely considered to be the composer's masterpiece.
Others
- Luigi Boccherini and Filippo Manfredi are on tour in Paris , where they appear in various salons and in the Concert Spirituel . Various works are created, including Boccherini's Sei sonate di Cembalo e violino obbligato op.5 . The two musicians will be in Aranjuez and San Ildefonso in Spain in the spring and play in the orchestra of the recently founded Compagnia dell'Opera italiana dei Sitios Reales (Italian Opera Company of the Royal Palaces).
- April 2 : On Holy Saturday, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach succeeds his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, who died the previous year, as municipal music director and cantor at the Johanneum in Hamburg, but will not officially take office until April 19 .
Born
Date of birth saved
- June 4 : Francesco Molino , Italian guitarist and composer († 1847 )
- July 6 : Heinrich Ofen , German composer and clarinetist († 1830 )
- July 20 : Franz Anton Schubert , German church composer and instrumentalist at the Catholic Court Church in Dresden († 1824 )
- September 3 : Filippo Gragnani , Italian composer and guitarist († 1820 )
- September 12 : Benjamin Carr , English-American composer, organist, singer and music publisher († 1831 )
- September 21 : Louis Emmanuel Jadin , French composer and professor († 1853 )
- November 2 : Carl Bonaventura Witzka , German composer and Catholic theologian († 1848 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Eleonora Zucker , German actress and singer († 1796 )
Died
Date of death secured
- January 13 : Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin , French flute virtuoso (* 1690 )
- March 3 : Nicola Antonio Porpora , Italian composer and singing teacher (* 1686 )
- May 18 : Johann Adam Berner , German organ builder (baptized 1723 )
- July 2nd : Johann Ulrich Eberle , Austrian instrument maker living in Prague (* 1699 )
- July 11 : José de Nebra , Spanish composer (* 1702 )
- October 28 : Michel Blavet , French flautist and composer (* 1700 )
- October 31 : Francesco Maria Veracini , Italian violinist and composer (* 1690 )
- November 1st : Pieter van Maldere , Belgian composer and violinist (* 1729 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Felix Benda , Bohemian composer (* 1708 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1768 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1768 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, pp. 68–70.
- ^ Sonatas for harpsichord and obbligato violin. The cover sheet of the first print can be seen at Coli. Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, pp. 70–72.
- ^ Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , ..., Lucca 2005, pp. 72 and 79 ff ..