1627 in music

The year 1627 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January 13 – Tarquinio Merula is officially appointed maestro di cappella in Cremona, after having been elected provisionally the previous year.
• June 21 – Christopher Gibbons election as a scholar of the Charterhouse is approved by the Governors, following his nomination in January through the Signet Office.

Published music

• Giovanni Battista Abatessa – , a collection of songs with alfabeto notation, for the guitar, published in Venice
• Giacinto Bondioli – Psalms for five voices, Op. 8 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Carlo Farina
• Melchior Franck
• for four, five, and six instruments with basso continuo (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Friederich Gruner), a collection of intradas
• for seven voices and organ bass (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
• for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
• Sigismondo d'India – First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Carlo Milanuzzi – for two and three voices, book 1, Op. 14 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Francesco Pasquali – Third book of madrigals, Op. 5 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)

Classical music

• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Il secondo libro di toccate
• Johann Ulrich Steigleder – Tabulaturbuch, 40 variations on Vater unser

Opera

• Heinrich Schütz – Dafne

Births

• April 9 – Johann Caspar Kerll, organist and composer (died 1693)

Deaths

• March 23 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer (born 1555)
• May 2 – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer and monk (born c.1560)
• August 21 – Jacques Mauduit, composer (born 1557)
• November 30 – Pedro Ruimonte, musician and composer (born 1565)
• December – Thomas Lupo the elder, viol player and composer (born 1571)
• date unknown
• Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, poet and composer (born 1556)
• Leone Leoni, composer (born c.1560)

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