1626 in music

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The year 1626 in music involved some significant events.

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

  • Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi

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
  • Melchior Franck
    • Hertzlicher Wuntsch auff vorgenommene Reyse glücklichen Fortgang und fröliche Wiederkunfft auch zu einem glückseligen Friedund Frewdenreichen lieben Newen Jahr for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a New Year's motet
    • Newes Christliches HochzeitGesang Auß dem XXV. Capitel Syrachs for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
    • Der XCI. Psalm Davids for six voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a birthday motet
    • Buszgesang von Ninive (Wach auff vom tiefen Schlaf der Sünden) for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Friedrich Gruner)
    • Assaphus Bernhardinus lingua binus voce trinus for three voices (Nuremberg: Simon Halbmayer), a motet in Latin and German
  • Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Libro terzo d'intavolatura di chitarrone (Rome: M. Privii)
  • 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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