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

Publications

Classical music

• Paolo Agostino – Second book of masses, for four voices
• Gregor Aichinger – (Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Schönigk)
• Adriano Banchieri – , Op. 49 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
• Antonio Brunelli – for one, two, three, four, and five voices, Op. 15 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
• Giovanni Battista Buonamente – , published in Venice
• Camillo Cortellini – for eight voices (Venice: Alessandro Vicenti)
• Carlo Farina –
• Melchior Franck
• for five voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a New Year's motet
• for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
• for six voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a birthday motet
• for eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Friedrich Gruner)
• for three voices (Nuremberg: Simon Halbmayer), a motet in Latin and German
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – (Rome: M. Privii)
• Giovanni Pasta – , book 1 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Johann Hermann Schein – Opella nova (Little new works), volume 2, a collection of sacred concertos

Theory and Practice

• Francisco Correa de Arauxo – (Alcala: Antonio Arnau), a book on the theory and practice of organ playing

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)
• date unknown
• John Cooper, English composer (born c.1570)
• Giovanni Priuli, organist and composer
• probable – Francesco Rognoni Taeggio, composer