1728 in music
# 1728 in music

The year 1728 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* 26 March – Johann Sebastian Bach revives his St John Passion (BWV 245, BC D 2c) with some textual and instrumentational changes.
* 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 described by Johann David Heinichen, in his 1728 treatise Der Generalbass in der Composition; the first such description in Western European literature

## Classical music

* Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita in D major, BWV 828
* Jean Francois Dandrieu – Pieces de Clavecin, Book 2
* Giovanni Antonio Guido – Scherzi armonici sopra le quattro staggioni dell'anno, Op. 3
* Jean-Marie Leclair – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 2
* Vincent Lübeck – Clavier Übung for harpsichord
* Michel Pignolet de Montéclair – Morte di Lucretia
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Cantates Françaises
* Thomas Roseingrave – Voluntarys and Fugues
* Giuseppe Tartini – 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 1
* Georg Philipp Telemann
   * Der getreue Music-Meister (editor, continues through 1729) Hamburg: [Telemann].
      * Das Frauenzimmer verstimmt sich immer, song for voice and basso continuo, TWV 25:37, lection 5
      * Ich kann lachen, weinen, scherzen (cantata, words by M. von Ziegler), for soprano and basso continuo, TWV 20:15, lections 19–20.
      * Intrada, nebst burlesquer Suite (nicknamed "Gulliver Suite") for two violins unaccompanied, TWV 40:108
      * Säume nicht geliebte Schöne, song for voice and basso continuo), TWV 25:38, lection 21

## Opera

* Bartolomeo Cordans – Ormisda
* Geminiano Giacomelli – Gianguir
* George Frideric Handel
   * Siroe, re di Persia, HWV 24
   * Tolomeo, re di Egitto
* Leonardo Leo
   * Catone in Utica
   * La pastorella commattuta, librettist Tommaso Mariani
* Johann Christoph Pepusch – The Beggar's Opera
* Leonardo Vinci
   * Catone in Utica
   * Didone Abandonnata
   * Medo

## 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)
* January 17 – Johann Gottfried Müthel, keyboard virtuoso and composer (died 1788)
* September 21 – Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer
* December 9 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, composer (died 1804)
* December 21 – Hermann Raupach, composer (died 1778)
* 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)
* October 8 – Anne Danican Philidor, composer and founder of the Concert Spirituel (born 1681)
* November 19 – Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, employer of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1694) (smallpox)
* probable – Gaetano Greco, composer (born c. 1657)
