- 1788 in music
"See also:"
1787 in music , other events of 1788,1789 in music ,list of years in music .Events
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Antonio Salieri appointed Imperial Royal Kapellmeister by EmperorJoseph II of Austria .
*Domenico Cimarosa is invited to St Petersburg by the EmpressCatherine II of Russia .Opera
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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 byLorenzo Da Ponte afterBeaumarchais ); "Il Talismano" (libretto byLorenzo Da Ponte afterGoldoni )
*Joseph Weigl - "Il pazzo per forza"Classical music
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , "Symphony nos 39-41"Births
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January 13 -Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz , composer
*February 10 -Johann Peter Pixis , composer
*February 25 -Mateo Ferrer , composer
*April 12 -Johann Erik Nordblom , composer
*August 20 -Jose Bernardo Alcedo , composer
*October 11 -Simon Sechter , composer
*October 20 -Philip Knapton , composer
*November 11 -Michal Wielhorski , composer
*December 18 -Camille Pleyel Deaths
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January 5 -Johann Schneider
*January 15 -Gaetano Latilla , composer (b. 1711)
*January 17 -Alessio Prati , composer
*January 31 -Francesco Zannetti , composer
*February 22 -Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel , composer
*March 1 -Orazio Mei , composer
*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)
*September 14 -Theodore-Jean Tarade , composer
*September 26 -François Bainville , composer
*October 18 -Jean-Guillain Cardon , composer
*November 1 -Johann Samuel Schroeter , composer
*November 15 -Peregrinus Pogl
*December 14 -Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach , composer (b. 1714)
*December 12 -Joseph Gibbs
*December 25 - John Logan, conductor
*"date unknown" -Antonin Kammel , violinist and composer (b. 1730)
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