1828 in music

Events

* "(none listed)"

Popular music

* "Oh! No! We Never Mention Her" by Thomas Haynes Bayly & E. Riley
* "Tyrolese Evening Hymn" by Felicia Hemans & Augusta Browne

Classical Music

*Franz Schubert - "String Quintet in C major, D. 956"

Opera

*Daniel Auber - "Masaniello"
*Vincenzo Bellini - "Bianca e Fernando"
*Heinrich Marschner - "Der Vampyr"
*Gioacchino Rossini - "Le comte Ory" ("Count Ory") first performed in Paris. Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles Gaspard Delestre-Poirson.

Births

*January 17 - Ede Reményi, violinist (d. 1898)
*February - Julius Reisinger, choreographer (d. 1892)
*April 15 - Robert Sands, first conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
*June 2 - James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer (d. 1916)
*July 15 - Raffaele Fiorini, violin maker (d. 1898)
*November 10 - Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, librettist (d. 1892)
*December 23 - Mathilde Wesendonck, poet and collaborator of Richard Wagner (d. 1902)
*"date unknown" - Robert Keller, music editor (d. 1891)

Deaths

*January 13 - Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer
*April 25 - François Benoît Hoffmann, opera librettist (b. 1760)
*March 26 - Elisabeth Olin, operatic soprano (died 1828)
*May 8 - Mauro Giuliani, guitarist and composer (b. 1781)
*June 15 - Brizio Petrucci, composer
*October 3 - Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer
*November 19 - Franz Schubert, composer (b. 1797)
*December 30 - Waldemar Thrane, composer (b. 1790)
*"date unknown"
**John Marsh, composer (b. 1752)
**Charlotta Seuerling, singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet (b. c. 1782)