Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of
1728 Banner

Births

16 January: NICCOLÒ PICCINNI = Italian composer of over 100 operas = [died: 1800]
17 January: JOHANN GOTTFRIED MÜTHEL = German keyboard virtuoso and composer = [died: 1788]
21 September: LOUIS EMMANUEL EADIN composer = [died: 1853]
9 December: PIETRO ALESSANDRO GUGLIELMI = Italian opera composer = [died: 1804]
21 December: HERMANN RAUPACH = German composer = [died: 1778]
25 December: JOHANN ADAM HILLER = German composer, conductor and writer on music = [died: 1804]

Timeline of 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.