1628 in music

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The year 1628 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• November 22 – Girolamo Frescobaldi is given permission by St Peter's Basilica to leave Rome.
• Heinrich Schütz returns to Venice to visit Monteverdi and Alessandro Grandi.
• Nicholas Lanier's musical setting of Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, performed in this year, may have been a precursor of English opera. ("May have been," because Lanier's music for the poem has not survived.)

Classical music

• Carlo Farina
  • Il quarto libro delle pavane, gagliarde, balletti, volte, passamezi, sonate, canzon
  • Fünffter Theil newer Pavanen, Brand: Mascharaden, Balletten, Sonaten

Opera

• Francesca Caccini – La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
• 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)