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 – (Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Schönigk) Adriano Banchieri – , Op. 49 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni) Antonio Brunelli – for one, two, three, four, and five voices, Op. 15 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni) Giovanni Battista Buonamente – , published in Venice Camillo Cortellini – for eight voices (Venice: Alessandro Vicenti) Carlo Farina – Melchior Franck for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a New Year's motet for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet for six voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a birthday motet for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Friedrich Gruner) for three voices (Nuremberg: Simon Halbmayer), a motet in Latin and German Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – (Rome: M. Privii) Giovanni Pasta – , 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 – (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) date unknown John Cooper, English composer (born c.1570) Giovanni Priuli, organist and composer probable – Francesco Rognoni Taeggio, composer
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