1628 in music

1628 in music

The year 1628 in music involved some significant events.

Events

* Claudio Monteverdi - "Il Ballo delle Ingrate" first performed.
* Heinrich Schütz returns to Venice to visit Monteverdi and Alessandro Grandi.
* Nicholas Lanier's musical setting of Christopher Marlowe's "Hero and Leander", 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

Opera

*Francesca Caccini - "La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina"

Births

*January 1 - Christoph Bernhard, German composer (died 1692)
*"date unknown" - Robert Cambert, French composer of opera (died 1677)

Deaths

*March 12 or 13 - John Bull (composer), composer and organist (born c1562)


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