1626 in music
The year 1626 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- Tarquinio Merula returns to Cremona.
- Paolo Agostino succeeds Vincenzo Ugolini as conductor of the pope's orchestra in St. Peter's Basilica.
Bands formed
Publications
Classical Music
- Paolo Agostino – Second book of masses, for four voices
- Gregor Aichinger – Flores musici ad mensam SS. convivii... (Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Schönigk)
- Adriano Banchieri – Il Virtuoso Ritrovo Academico Del Dissonante, publicamente praticato con variati Concerti Musicali A 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Voci ò Stromenti, nell'Academia di Filomusi, Op. 49 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
- Antonio Brunelli – Fioretti spirituali for one, two, three, four, and five voices, Op. 15 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
- Giovanni Battista Buonamente – Il quarto libro de varie de sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, corrente, e brandi per sonar con due violini & un basso di viola, published in Venice
- Camillo Cortellini – Messe concertate for eight voices (Venice: Alessandro Vicenti)
- Carlo Farina – Libro delle pavane, gagliarde, brand: mascharata, aria franzesa, volte, balletti, sonate, canzone
- Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger – Libro terzo d'intavolatura di chitarrone
- Giovanni Pasta – Affetti d'Erato. Madrigali in concerto..., book 1 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
- Johann Hermann Schein – Opella nova (Little new works), volume 2, a collection of sacred concertos
Theory and Practice
- Francisco Correa de Arauxo – Facultad organica (Alcala: Antonio Arnau), a book on the theory and practice of organ playing
Opera
- Domenico Mazzochi – La catena d'Adone
Births
- August 12 (baptized) – Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (died 1690)
- date unknown
- Wolfgang Carl Briegel, organist and composer (died 1712)
- Marusia Churai, composer, poet and singer (died 1689)
- probable – Louis Couperin, French harpsichordist and composer (died 1661)
Deaths
- February 20 – John Dowland, composer and lutenist (born 1563)
- May 17 – Joan Pau Pujol, organist and composer (born 1570)
- June – Samuel Rüling, poet and composer (born 1586)
- November – Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)
- date unknown
- John Cooper, English composer (born c.1570)
- Giovanni Priuli, organist and composer
- probable – Francesco Rognoni Taeggio, composer
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