- 1728 in music
The year 1728 in music involved some significant events.
Events
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Giuseppe Tartini opens a school for violinists inPadua .
*Johann Georg Pisendel begins studying composition underJohann 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 forcesJohann Mattheson to retire from his post as musical director ofHamburg Cathedral.
*Inmusic theory , theCircle of fifths is first described byJohann David Heinichen , in his1728 treatise "Der Generalbass in der Composition".Classical music
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Georg Philipp Telemann - "Gulliver Suite" for two violins unaccompanied
*Jean-Philippe Rameau - "Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin"Opera
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Bartolomeo Cordans - "Ormisda"
*George Frideric Handel - "Tolomeo , re di Egitto"
*Leonardo Leo - "La pastorella commattuta"
*Leonardo Vinci - "Didone Abandonnata"Musical theater
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The Beggar's Opera " opened atLincoln's Inn Fields onJanuary 29 and ran for 62 performancesBirths
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January 16 -Niccolò Piccinni , composer of over 100 operas (died1800 )
*September 21 -Louis Emmanuel Eadin , composer
*December 9 -Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi , composer (died1804 )
*December 25 -Johann Adam Hiller , composer (died1804 )Deaths
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February 12 -Agostino Steffani , composer and diplomat (born1653 )
*August 15 -Marin Marais , composer and bass-viol player (born1656 )
*"unknown date" -Gaetano Greco , composer (born c.1657 )
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