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The year 1729 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• George Frideric Handel becomes co-manager of the King's Theatre, London.
• Pietro Locatelli settles in Amsterdam, where he will spend the rest of his life.

Classical music

• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - Concerto for cello, viol or bassoon
• Antonio Caldara - Vicino a un rivoletto
• Michel Richard Delalande - Motets de feu De La Lande (Motets of the late De La Lande), a collection of grand motets
• Jean-Joseph Mouret - Symphony de Fanfare
• Antonio Vivaldi - Op. 12, a collection of violin concerti, published in Amsterdam

Opera

• Tomaso Albinoni - La fortezza al cimento
• Giovanni Battista Costanzi - Carlo Magno
• John Gay - The Beggar's Opera
• Giovanni Battista Mancini - Endimione

Births

• February 16 - Gaetano Guadagni, castrato singer (died 1792)
• October 1 - Anton Adlgasser, composer (died 1777)
• October 17 - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer (died 1817)
• November - Giuseppe Sarti, opera composer (died 1802)
• December 3 - Antonio Soler, composer (died 1783)

Deaths

• July 16 - Johann David Heinichen, composer (born 1683)
• July 31 - Nicola Francesco Haym, opera librettist and composer (born 1678)
• date unknown - Attilio Ariosti, composer (born 1666)