1627 in music

Events

• January 13 – Tarquinio Merula is officially appointed maestro di cappella in Cremona, after having been elected provisionally the previous year.
• June 21 – Christopher Gibbons election as a scholar of the Charterhouse is approved by the Governors, following his nomination in January through the Signet Office.

Published music

• Giovanni Battista Abatessa – Corona di vaghi fiori..., a collection of songs with alfabeto notation, for the guitar, published in Venice
• Giacinto Bondioli – Psalms for five voices, Op. 8 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Carlo Farina
  • Ander Theil newer Paduanen, Gagliarden, Couranten, französischen Arien
  • Il terzo libro delle pavane, gagliarde, brand: mascherata, arie franzese, volte, corrente, sinfonie
• Melchior Franck
  • Deliciae convivales for four, five, and six instruments with basso continuo (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Friederich Gruner), a collection of intradas
  • Neues fröhliches musikalisches Concert for seven voices and organ bass (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
  • Christliche Musicalische Glückwündschung auß den recht schönen tröstlichen Worten Esai. 43. Fürchte dich nicht denn ich habe dich erlöset for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
• Sigismondo d'India – First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Carlo Milanuzzi – Concerto sacro di salmi intieri for two and three voices, book 1, Op. 14 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Francesco Pasquali – Third book of madrigals, Op. 5 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)

Classical music

• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Il secondo libro di toccate
• Johann Ulrich Steigleder – Tabulaturbuch, 40 variations on Vater unser

Opera

• Heinrich Schütz – Dafne

Births

• April 9 – Johann Caspar Kerll, organist and composer (died 1693)

Deaths

• March 23 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer (born 1555)
• May 2 – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer and monk (born c.1560)
• August 21 – Jacques Mauduit, composer (born 1557)
• November 30 – Pedro Ruimonte, musician and composer (born 1565)
• December – Thomas Lupo the elder, viol player and composer (born 1571)
• date unknown
  • Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, poet and composer (born 1556)
  • Leone Leoni, composer (born c.1560)

References

References

1. Stephen Bonta, "Merula, Tarquinio", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]] and [[John Tyrrell (musicologist). John Tyrrell]] (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
2. Christopher D. S. Field, "Gibbons, Christopher", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).