1728 in music
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See also: 1727 in music, other events of 1728, 1729 in music, list of years in music.
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.
Classical music
- Georg Philipp Telemann - Gulliver-Suite
Opera
- George Frideric Handel - Tolomeo, re di Egitto
- Leonardo Leo - La pastorella commattuta
- Leonardo Vinci - Didone Abandonnata
- The Beggar's Opera opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields on January 29 and ran for 62 performances
Births
- January 16 - Niccola Piccinni, composer of over 100 operas
- September 21 - Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer
- December 9 - Pietro Guglielmi, composer
- December 25 - Johann Hiller, composer
Deaths
- February 12 - Agostino Steffani, composer and diplomat
- August 15 - Marin Marais, composer and bass-viol player
- unknown date - Gaetano Greco, composer
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