1788 in music
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Events
- January 9 – The elderly Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach reviews Johann Nikolaus Forkel’s book Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik in the Hamburgischer unpartheyischer Correspondent.[1]
- January 22 – Composer Ignaz Pleyel marries Franziska Gabrielle Ignatia Lefebvre, daughter of a tapestry maker.[1]
- January 26 – Australia Day: HMS Sirius (1786) leads the First Fleet into landing at Sydney Cove (which will become Sydney) to begin the settlement of Australia; it carries Surgeon George Worgan's London-made square piano which will remain in the country and be donated to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts collection in 2016.
- February 6 – The Kärntnertortheater in Vienna closes, after the German Opera Company disbands.[1]
- February 12 – Antonio Salieri is appointed Imperial Royal Kapellmeister by Emperor Joseph II of Austria, in succession to Giuseppe Bonno, who is forcibly retired.[1]
- March 6 – Domenico Cimarosa, recently invited to St Petersburg by the Empress Catherine II of Russia, premières his La felicità inaspetata, which fails to impress his new patron.[1]
- June 25 – Publication of three string quintets (K.406, 515, 516) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is postponed for a year because of a lack of take-up of subscriptions.[1]
- July 17 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf is officially dismissed from his post as Amtshauptmann of Freiwaldau, but actually continues in the position for another seven years.[1]
- November 25 – Three weeks before his death, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach writes his last known letter, to Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal.[1]
Opera
- Giuseppe Cambini – Le bon pére
- Thomas Carter – The Constant Maid, or Poll of Plympton
- Luigi Cherubini – Ifigenia in Aulide[1]
- Domenico Cimarosa
- La felicità inaspettata
- La vergine del sole
- Franz Danzi – Die Mitternachtsstunde
- Giovanni Paisiello – L'Amor Contrastato
- Antonio Sacchini – Arvire et Évélina (posthumous "tragédie lyrique", finished by Jean-Baptiste Rey), premiered April 29.[1]
- 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
- Domenico Cimarosa – Atene edificata (cantata)
- Muzio Clementi
- 3 Piano Trios, Op.21
- 3 Piano Trios, Op.22
- Keyboard sonata op.24/1[1]
- Michel Corrette – Messe pour le tems de Noël
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – 6 String Quartets
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- 3 Sonatas for Keyboard with Violin, Op.5
- Three piano sonatas C.41–43[1]
- Joseph-Francois Garnier – Simphonie Concertante for 2 Oboes
- Joseph Haydn
- 8 Nocturnes, Hob.II:25–32
- String Quartet in C major, Hob.III:57
- String Quartet in G major, Hob.III:58
- String Quartet in E major, Hob.III:59
- Baryton Trio in A major, Hob.XI:6
- Baryton Trio in A major, Hob.XI:8
- Michael Haydn
- Die Ährenleserin (singspiel)
- Symphony No.37 in D major, MH 476
- Pelham Humfrey – O Lord, My God
- Frantisek Kotzwara – The Battle of Prague (piano with commentary)
- Leopold Kozeluch – Piano Sonata, Op.26 No.3
- Anton Kraft – 3 Cello Sonatas, Op. 1
- Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz – 6 Harp Sonatas, Opp. 13–14
- Vicente Martín y Soler – 12 Canzonette Italiane
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Symphonies 40 in G minor
- Ein deutsches Kriegslied, K.539
- Adagio in B minor, K.540
- Piano Trio in E major, K.542
- Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K.543
- Piano Trio in C major, K.548
- Più non si trovano, K.549
- Symphony No. 41 in C major, K.551
- Canon for 3 Voices in A major (Caro bell'idol mio), K.562
- Divertimento in E-flat major, K.563
- Piano Trio in G major, K.564
- Giovanni Paisiello – Duet for two violins
- Ignaz Pleyel
- Violin Concerto in D major, B.103A
- 3 Quintets, B.280–282
- 6 Keyboard Trios, B.431–436
- Alexander Reinagle – Federal March
- Giuseppe Sarti – 3 Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Op. 4
- Giovanni Battista Viotti
- Violin Concerto No.14 in A minor
- 6 Violin Sonatas, W 5.1–6
Methods and theory writings
- Johann Nikolaus Forkel – Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik
- Ferdinand Kauer – Kurzgefaßte Anweisung das Violoncell zu spielen
- Ernst Wilhelm Wolf – Musikalischer Unterricht
Births
- January 5 – Kaspar Ett, composer and musician (died 1847)
- January 8
- Erzherzog Rudolph, composer and archduke (died 1831)
- Duke Eugen of Württemberg, composer and general (died 1857)
- January 22 – George Gordon Byron, lyricist and poet (died 1824)
- January 31 – Felice Romani, librettist and writer (died 1865)
- February 10 – Johann Peter Pixis, composer (died 1874)
- March 10 – Joseph von Eichendorff, lyricist and poet (died 1857)
- May 16 – Friedrich Rückert, librettist and poet (died 1866)
- August 20 – José Bernardo Alcedo, composer (died 1878)
- October 11 – Simon Sechter, composer (died 1867)
- November 11 – Michał Wielhorski, Russian composer (died 1856)
- date unknown
- Brita Catharina Lidbeck, Swedish concert singer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (died 1864)
- John David Loder, composer and violinist (died 1846)
Deaths
- January 15 – Gaetano Latilla, composer (b. 1711)
- March 2 – Salomon Gessner, lyricist and poet (born 1730)
- March 29 – Charles Wesley, hymn-writer (b. 1707)
- April 12 – 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)
- November 2 – Johann Samuel Schröter, German composer (born 1753)
- December 14 – Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, composer (b. 1714)
- December 12 – Joseph Gibbs, composer (b. 1699)
References
- "1788". MusicAndHistory. 2012-07-04. Archived from the original on 2013-06-16. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
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