1728 in music
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The year 1728 in music involved some significant events.
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[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.
- In music theory, the Circle of fifths is first described by Johann David Heinichen, in his 1728 treatise Der Generalbass in der Composition.
[edit] Classical music
- Georg Philipp Telemann - Gulliver Suite for two violins unaccompanied
- Jean-Philippe Rameau - Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin
[edit] Opera
- Bartolomeo Cordans - Ormisda
- 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 Adam 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)