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1728 in music

See also: 1727 in music, other events of 1728, 1729 in music, list of years in music.

Events

Classical music

Opera

• Tolomeo, re di Egitto - George Frideric Handel

Musical theater

• The Beggar's Opera opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields on January 29 and ran for 62 performances

Births

• January 16 - Niccola Piccinni, composer of over 100 operas
• September 21 - Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer

Deaths

• August 15 - Marin Marais, composer and bass-viol player