1626 in music

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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.

Giovanni Battista Buonamente – Il quarto libro de varie de sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, corrente, e brandi per sonar con due violini & un basso di viola, published in Venice
Carlo Farina – Libro delle pavane, gagliarde, brand: mascharata, aria franzesa, volte, balletti, sonate, canzone
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger – Libro terzo d'intavolatura di chitarrone
Johann Hermann Schein – Opella nova (Little new works), volume 2, a collection of sacred concertos

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)

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)
November – Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)
date unknown
- John Cooper, English composer (born c.1570)
- Giovanni Priuli, organist and composer
probable – Francesco Rognoni Taeggio, composer