1788 in music

List of years in music (table)
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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
    • Fedra, premiered Jan. 1 in Naples
  • 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

  • William Billings – The Singing Master’s Assistant (including "Vermont" and "Washington")
  • Henry Bishop – Six New Minuets and Twelve Country Dances (including "Knoll Park")
  • 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
    • String Quartet in A major, Hob.III:60
    • String Quartet in F minor, Hob.III:61
    • String Quartet in B-flat major, Hob.III:62
    • Baryton Trio in A major, Hob.XI:6
    • Baryton Trio in A major, Hob.XI:8
    • Symphony No.90 in C major, Hob.I:90
    • Symphony No.91 in E-flat major, Hob.I:91
  • 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
  • Rodolphe Kreutzer – Violin Concerto No.6 in E minor
  • Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz – 6 Harp Sonatas, Opp. 13–14
  • Vicente Martín y Soler – 12 Canzonette Italiane
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • 6 German Dances, K.536
    • Ein deutsches Kriegslied, K.539
    • Adagio in B minor, K.540 (dated March 19)
    • Un bacio di mano, K.541 (dated May)
    • 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. 40 in G minor, K. 550
    • Symphony No. 41 in C major, K.551, "Jupiter"
    • 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
    • 6 German Dances, K.567
    • 12 Minuets, K.568
  • 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.13 in A major
    • Violin Concerto No.14 in A minor
    • 6 Violin Sonatas, W 5.1–6 (Op. 4)

Methods and theory writings

  • Johann Nikolaus Forkel – Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik
  • Ferdinand Kauer – Kurzgefaßte Anweisung das Violoncell zu spielen
  • Vincenzo Manfredini – Difesa della musica moderna e de' suoi celebri esecutori
  • Ernst Wilhelm Wolf – Musikalischer Unterricht

Births

  • January 5 – Caspar 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)
  • August 26 – Aloys Schmitt, composer (died 1866)
  • September 5 – George Macfarren, lyricist (died 1843)
  • September 28 – Karl Christian Philipp Reichel composer (died 1857)
  • October 11 – Simon Sechter, composer (died 1867)
  • October 20 – Philip Knapton, composer (died 1833)
  • November 6 – Giuseppe Donizetti, composer (died 1856)
  • November 11 – Michał Wielhorski, Russian composer (died 1856)
  • December 18 – Camille Pleyel, musician (died 1855)
  • December 21 – Charles Chaulieu Sr., composer (died 1849)
  • December 26 – Carl Anton Philipp Braun, composer (died 1835)
  • 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
  • April 15 – Giuseppe Bonno, composer (b. 1711)
  • May 17 – Dorothea Biehl, librettist (born 1731)
  • 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "1788". MusicAndHistory. 2012-07-04. Archived from the original on 2013-06-16. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
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