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 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