1626 in music

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.

Bands formed

• Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi

Classical music

• 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

Opera

• Domenico Mazzochi – La catena d'Adone

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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