Composer events for 1928
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Birthdays
- David Farquhar ()
- Donald Cochrane ()
- Morley Calvert ()
- Peter Richard Tahourdin ()
- Virtú Maragno ()
- Jean Barraqué (17 January)
- Jean-Michel Damase (27 January)
- Mitch Leigh (30 January)
- Samuel Adler (4 March)
- Ronald Stevenson (6 March)
- Nicolas Flagello (15 March)
- Carl (Karl) Boehm (16 March)
- Thea Musgrave (27 May)
- Jacob Druckman (26 June)
- Robert Washburn (11 July)
- Olé Schmidt (14 July)
- Tadeusz Baird (26 July)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August)
- Evgeny (Yevgeny) Svetlanov (6 September)
- Robert Helps (23 September)
- Karl Haus (24 September)
- Einojuhani Rautavaara (9 October)
- Ennio Morricone (10 November)
- Heinrich Poos (25 December)
Dying days
- Alexandre Rey Colaço ()
- Emil Bohnke ()
- Jakob Adolf Hägg ()
- Léon Walpot (24 July)
- Leoš Janáček (12 August)
- Jean Gabriel-Marie (29 August)
Music events
- Premiere of Wandlungen, in Baden-Baden, Germany. (16 April) → Joseph Matthias Hauer
- Premiere of Apollon Musagète, in Washington, USA. (17 April) → Igor Stravinsky
- Premiere of Fra Gherardo, in Milan, Italy. (16 May) → Ildebrando Pizzetti
- Premiere of Die Ägyptische Helena, in Dresden, Germany. (6 June) → Richard Strauss
- Premiere of Die Dreigroschenoper, in Berlin, Germany. (31 August) → Kurt Weill
- Premiere of Boléro, in Paris, France. (22 November) → Maurice Ravel
- Premiere of An American in Paris, in New York, USA. (13 December) → George (Jacob) Gershwin
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