1628 in music

The year 1628 in music involved some significant events.

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Events

• July 10 – Heinrich Schütz seeks a travel warrant from Johann Georg, Elector of Saxony, to return to Venice to visit Monteverdi and Alessandro Grandi.[1]
• November 22 – Girolamo Frescobaldi is given permission by St Peter's Basilica to leave Rome.

Published popular music

• Carlo Farina
  • Il quarto libro delle pavane, gagliarde, balletti, volte, passamezi, sonate, canzon
  • Fünffter Theil newer Pavanen, Brand: Mascharaden, Balletten, Sonaten

Opera

• Francesca Caccini – La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
• Nicholas Lanier – A musical setting (recitativo) of Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander[2]
• Claudio Monteverdi – Il Ballo delle Ingrate

Births

• January 1 – Christoph Bernhard, German composer (died 1692)
• date unknown – Robert Cambert, French composer of opera (died 1677)

Deaths

• January 21 – Gregor Aichinger, composer (born c.1565)
• March – Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, viol player and composer (born c.1575)[3]
• March 12 or 13 – John Bull (composer), composer and organist (born c1562)[4]
• November 16 – Paolo Quagliati, composer (born c. 1555)
• date unknown – Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, Sufi saint, poet, author and composer (born 1541)

References

1. Heinrich Schütz (30 May 2013). A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation. OUP USA. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-19-981220-2.
2. Matthew Spring (2001). The Lute in Britain: A History of the Instrument and Its Music. Oxford University Press. p. 376. ISBN 978-0-19-518838-7.
3. Ashbee, Andrew (January 2008j) [2004]. "Ferrabosco, John (bap. 1626, d. 1682)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9355.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)(subscription required)
4. Paul Chappell (1970). A Portrait of John Bull, C. 1563-1628. Hereford Cathedral. p. 20.