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