1628 in music

The year 1628 in music involved some significant events.

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.^[1]
• 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^[2]
• 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)^[3]
• March 12 or 13 – John Bull (composer), composer and organist (born c1562)^[4]
• November 16 – Paolo Quagliati, composer (born c. 1555)
• date unknown – Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, Sufi saint, poet, author and composer (born 1541)