1728 in music

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The year 1728 in music involved some significant events.

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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 first described by Johann David Heinichen, in his 1728 treatise Der Generalbass in der Composition.