1728 in music

1728 in music

The year 1728 in music involved some significant events.

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".

Classical music

*Georg Philipp Telemann - "Gulliver Suite" for two violins unaccompanied
*Jean-Philippe Rameau - "Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin"

Opera

*Bartolomeo Cordans - "Ormisda"
*George Frideric Handel - "Tolomeo, re di Egitto"
*Leonardo Leo - "La pastorella commattuta"
*Leonardo Vinci - "Didone Abandonnata"

Musical theater

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

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)

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)


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