Events
- 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
- 26 March Johann Sebastian Bach revives his St John Passion (BWV 245, BC D 2c) with some textual and instrumentational changes.
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