1628 in music

Last updated July 30, 2025

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)

References

↑ Heinrich Schütz (30 May 2013). A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation. OUP USA. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-19-981220-2.
↑ Matthew Spring (2001). The Lute in Britain: A History of the Instrument and Its Music. Oxford University Press. p. 376. ISBN 978-0-19-518838-7.
↑ Ashbee, Andrew (January 2008j) [2004]. "Ferrabosco, John (bap. 1626, d. 1682)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9355.(subscription required)
↑ Paul Chappell (1970). A Portrait of John Bull, C. 1563-1628. Hereford Cathedral. p. 20. ISBN 9780950101125.

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[1] Heinrich Schütz (30 May 2013). A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation. OUP USA. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-19-981220-2.

[Spring2001-2] Matthew Spring (2001). The Lute in Britain: A History of the Instrument and Its Music. Oxford University Press. p. 376. ISBN 978-0-19-518838-7.

[3] Ashbee, Andrew (January 2008j) [2004]. "Ferrabosco, John (bap. 1626, d. 1682)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9355.(subscription required)

[Chappell1970-4] Paul Chappell (1970). A Portrait of John Bull, C. 1563-1628. Hereford Cathedral. p. 20. ISBN 9780950101125.

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