1788 in music

See also: 1787 in music, other events of 1788, 1789 in music, list of years in music.

Contents 1 Events 2 Opera 3 Classical music 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Antonio Salieri appointed Imperial Royal Kapellmeister by Emperor Joseph II of Austria.
• Domenico Cimarosa is invited to St Petersburg by the Empress Catherine II of Russia.

Opera

• Thomas Carter - The Constant Maid, or Poll of Plympton
• Luigi Cherubini - Ifigenia in Aulide
• Franz Danzi - Die Mitternachtsstunde
• Giovanni Paisiello - L'Amor Contrastato
• Antonio Salieri - Axur, Re d´Ormus (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte after Beaumarchais); Il Talismano (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte after Goldoni)
• Joseph Weigl - Il pazzo per forza

Classical music

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphonies 39 in E flat, 40 in G minor and 41 in C

Births

• February 10 - Johann Peter Pixis, composer
• August 20 - Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer
• October 11 - Simon Sechter, composer
  • Date unknown
• Brita Catharina Lidbeck, Swedish concert singer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Deaths

• January 15 - Gaetano Latilla, composer (b. 1711)
• March 29 - Charles Wesley, hymn-writer (b. 1707)
• April 12
  • Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer
  • Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer (b. 1720)
• April 15 - Giuseppe Bonno, composer (b. 1711)
• June 28 - Johann Christoph Vogel, composer
• July 14 - Johann Gottfried Müthel, composer (b. 1728)
• December 14 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, composer (b. 1714)
• December 12 - Joseph Gibbs, composer (b. 1699)
• date unknown - Antonin Kammel, violinist and composer (b. 1730)

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