1628 in music
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Events
- November 22 – Girolamo FrescobaldiGirolamo FrescobaldiGirolamo Frescobaldi was a musician from Ferrara, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A child prodigy, Frescobaldi studied under Luzzasco Luzzaschi in Ferrara, but was influenced by a large number of composers, including Ascanio...
is given permission by St Peter's Basilica to leave Rome. - Heinrich SchützHeinrich SchützHeinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...
returns to VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
to visit Monteverdi and Alessandro GrandiAlessandro GrandiAlessandro Grandi was a northern Italian composer of the early Baroque era, writing in the new concertato style...
. - Nicholas LanierNicholas LanierNicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere was an English composer, singer, lutenist and painter....
's musical setting of Christopher MarloweChristopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May...
's Hero and LeanderHero and Leander (poem)Hero and Leander is a mythological poem by Christopher Marlowe. After Marlowe's death it was completed by George Chapman. Henry Petowe published an alternate completion to the poem.-Publication:...
, performed in this year, may have been a precursor of English opera. ("May have been," because Lanier's music for the poem has not survived.)
Classical music
- Carlo FarinaCarlo FarinaCarlo Farina was an Italian composer, conductor and violinist of the Baroque era.-Life:Farina was born at Mantova. He presumably received his first lessons from his father, who was sonatore di viola at the court of the Gonzaga in Mantova. Later he got further education probably by Salomone Rossi...
- Il quarto libro delle pavane, gagliarde, balletti, volte, passamezi, sonate, canzon
- Fünffter Theil newer Pavanen, Brand: Mascharaden, Balletten, Sonaten
Opera
- Francesca CacciniFrancesca CacciniFrancesca Caccini was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and was one of the best-known and most influential female European composers between Hildegard of Bingen in the 12th century and the 19th century...
– La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina - Claudio MonteverdiClaudio MonteverdiClaudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
– Il Ballo delle Ingrate
Births
- January 1 – Christoph BernhardChristoph BernhardChristoph Bernhard was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig and in Warsaw By the age of 20 he was singing at the electoral court in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz...
, German composer (died 1692) - date unknown – Robert CambertRobert CambertRobert Cambert was a French composer principally of opera. His opera Pomone was the first actual opera in French.Born in Paris in 1628, he studied music under Chambonnières, His first position was as organist at the church of St. Honor in Paris...
, French composer of opera (died 1677)
Deaths
- January 21 – Gregor AichingerGregor AichingerGregor Aichinger was a German composer.He was organist to the Fugger family of Augsburg in 1584. In 1599 he went for a two year visit to Rome for musical, rather than religious reasons, although he had taken religious orders before his appointment under the Fugger. Proske, in the preface to vol...
, composer (born c.1565) - March – Alfonso Ferrabosco the youngerAlfonso Ferrabosco the youngerAlfonso Ferrabosco the younger was an English composer and viol player of Italian descent. He straddles the line between the Renaissance and Baroque eras.-Biography:...
, viol player and composer (born c.1575) - March 12 or 13 – John Bull (composer)John Bull (composer)John Bull was an English composer, musician, and organ builder. He was a renowned keyboard performer of the virginalist school and most of his compositions were written for this medium.-Life:...
, composer and organist (born c1562) - November 16 – Paolo QuagliatiPaolo QuagliatiPaolo Quagliati was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and a member of the Roman School of composers...
, composer (born c. 1555) - date unknown – Aziz Mahmud HudayiAziz Mahmud HudayiAziz Mahmud Hudayi , , is amongst the most famous sufi saints of Turkey, mystic, poet, composer, author, statesman and Islamic scholar. He was the Sheikh of Sultan Ahmed I who constructed the famous Blue Mosque and especially gained the respect of Sultan Murat III. He read the first Friday prayer...
, Sufi saint, poet, author and composer (born 1541)