1626 in music

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See also: 1625 in music, other events of 1626, 1627 in music, list of years in music.

Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Tarquinio Merula returns to Cremona.

[edit] Classical music

• Johann Hermann Schein - Opella nova (Little new works), volume 2, a collection of sacred concertos

[edit] Opera

• Domenico Mazzochi - La catena d'Adone

[edit] Births

• August 12 (baptized) - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (died 1690)
• probable - Louis Couperin, French harpsichordist and composer (died 1661)

[edit] Deaths

• February 20 - John Dowland, composer and lutenist (born 1563)
• date unknown

• John Cooper, English composer (born c.1570)
• Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)