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 [full citation needed]
- Säume nicht geliebte Schöne, song for voice and basso continuo), TWV 25:38, lection 21
- Der getreue Music-Meister (editor, continues through 1729) Hamburg: [Telemann].
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)