1828 in music

Events

• March 9 – The Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire gives its first concert, including music by Beethoven, Rossini, Meifreid, Rode and Cherubini.
• November 3 – Composer Ferdinand Hérold is awarded the Légion d'honneur.

Popular music

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

Classical music

• Frédéric Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 1
• Johannes Frederik Fröhlich – Ouverture til Freias Alter
• Ferdinand Hérold – La fille mal gardée (ballet)
• Franz Schubert
  • Der Hirt auf dem Felsen
  • Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands
  • String Quintet in C major, D. 956
  • Last three piano sonatas
• Louis Spohr – Symphony No. 3, op. 78

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)
• February 8 – Antonio Cagnoni, composer (d. 1896)
• April 5 – Pietro Platania, composer and music teacher (d. 1907)
• April 15 – Robert Sands, first conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
• April 26 – Francesco Graziani (baritone), operatic baritone (d. 1901)
• June 2 – James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer (d. 1916)
• June 24 – Adolphe Blanc, chamber music composer (d. 1885)
• July 15 – Raffaele Fiorini, violin maker (d. 1898)
• July 31 – François-Auguste Gevaert, composer (d. 1908)
• October 3 – Woldemar Bargiel, composer (d. 1897)
• October 19 – Adolfo Fumagalli, pianist (d. 1856)
• November 3 – Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr., violinist and conductor (d. 1893)
• November 10 – Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, librettist (d. 1892)
• November 23 – Clemente Aguirre, composer and music teacher (d. 1900)
• 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 (b. 1740)
• June 15 – Brizio Petrucci, composer
• 25 September – Charlotta Seuerling, singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet (b. c. 1783)
• October 3 – Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer
• November 19 – Franz Schubert, composer (b. 1797)
• December 30 – Waldemar Thrane, composer (b. 1790)
• date unknown
  • John Henry Johnstone, singer and actor (b. 1749)
  • John Marsh, composer (b. 1752)