1728 in music

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See also: 1727 in music, other events of 1728, 1729 in music, list of years in music.

Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Musical theater 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Giuseppe Tartini opens a school for violinists in Padua.
• Johann Georg Pisendel begins studying composition under Johann David Heinichen.
• Domenico Scarlatti returns to Rome, where he meets his first wife.
• Johann Joachim Quantz visits Berlin and performs in the presence of the Crown Prince of Prussia, who insists on taking lessons from him.
• Deafness forces Johann Mattheson to retire from his post as musical director of Hamburg Cathedral.

[edit] Classical music

• Georg Philipp Telemann - Gulliver-Suite

[edit] Opera

• George Frideric Handel - Tolomeo, re di Egitto
• Leonardo Leo - La pastorella commattuta
• Leonardo Vinci - Didone Abandonnata

[edit] Musical theater

• The Beggar's Opera opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields on January 29 and ran for 62 performances

[edit] Births

• January 16 - Niccolò Piccinni, composer of over 100 operas (died 1800)
• September 21 - Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer
• December 9 - Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, composer (died 1804)
• December 25 - Johann Hiller, composer (died 1804)

[edit] Deaths

• February 12 - Agostino Steffani, composer and diplomat (born 1653)
• August 15 - Marin Marais, composer and bass-viol player (born 1656)
• unknown date - Gaetano Greco, composer (born c.1657)