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Overview of the events of 1788 in music
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] 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] April 29 – Première of Antonio Sacchini 's "tragédie lyrique" completed after the composer's death by Jean-Baptiste Rey .[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 Classical music Births Deaths References 
