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
Publications
Classical music
- Paolo Agostino – Second book of masses, for four voices
- Gregor Aichinger – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Schönigk)
- Adriano Banchieri – Script error: No such module "Lang"., Op. 49 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
- Antonio Brunelli – Script error: No such module "Lang". for one, two, three, four, and five voices, Op. 15 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
- Giovanni Battista Buonamente – Script error: No such module "Lang"., published in Venice
- Camillo Cortellini – Script error: No such module "Lang". for eight voices (Venice: Alessandro Vicenti)
- Carlo Farina – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Melchior Franck
- Script error: No such module "Lang". for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a New Year's motet
- Script error: No such module "Lang". for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
- Script error: No such module "Lang". for six voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a birthday motet
- Script error: No such module "Lang". for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Friedrich Gruner)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". for three voices (Nuremberg: Simon Halbmayer), a motet in Latin and German
- Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Rome: M. Privii)
- Giovanni Pasta – Script error: No such module "Lang"., 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 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Alcala: Antonio Arnau), a book on the theory and practice of organ playing
Opera
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