1628 in music

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.
• 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
• Melchior Franck
  • Rosetulum musicum for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices with basso continuo (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Friedrich Gruner)
  • Sacri Convivii Musica Sacra for four, five, and six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a collection of motets
  • Zwey Neue Musicalische Concert for three choirs (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), two wedding motets
  • Suspirium Germaniae Publicum for four and seven voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), two motets
• Vinko Jelić
  • Arion primus sacrorum concentuum for one, two, three, and four voices with organ bass, Op. 2 (Strasbourg: Paul Lederz)
  • Arion secundus psalmorum vespertinorum for four voices with organ bass, Op. 3 (Strasbourg: Paul Lederz)
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Cantiones sacrae, vol. 1 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)
• Carlo Milanuzzi – Sixth book of ariose vaghezze for solo voice with accompaniment, Op. 15 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Peter Philips – Paradisus sacris cantionibus consitus for one, two, and three voices with organ bass (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)

Opera

• Francesca Caccini – La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
• Marco da Gagliano – La Flora, performed at the Teatro Mediceo on October 14 to celebrate the wedding of Odoardo Farnese and Margherita de Medici
• Nicholas Lanier – A musical setting (recitativo) of Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander
• 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)
• March 12 or 13 – John Bull (composer), composer and organist (born c1562)
• November 16 – Paolo Quagliati, composer (born c. 1555)
• date unknown – Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, Sufi saint, poet, author and composer (born 1541)

References

References

1. Heinrich Schütz. (30 May 2013). "A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation". OUP USA.
2. Matthew Spring. (2001). "The Lute in Britain: A History of the Instrument and Its Music". Oxford University Press.
3. Ashbee, Andrew. (January 2008j). "Ferrabosco, John (bap. 1626, d. 1682)". Oxford University Press.
4. Paul Chappell. (1970). "A Portrait of John Bull, C. 1563-1628". Hereford Cathedral.