title: 1728 in music
text: # 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)
  