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 – Corona di vaghi fiori..., a collection of songs with alfabeto notation, for the guitar, published in Venice
- Giacinto Bondioli – Psalms for five voices, Op. 8
- Carlo Farina
- *Ander Theil newer Paduanen, Gagliarden, Couranten, französischen Arien
- *Il terzo libro delle pavane, gagliarde, brand: mascherata, arie franzese, volte, corrente, sinfonie
- Melchior Franck
- *Deliciae convivales for four, five, and six instruments with basso continuo, a collection of intradas
- *Neues fröhliches musikalisches Concert for seven voices and organ bass, a wedding motet
- *Christliche Musicalische Glückwündschung auß den recht schönen tröstlichen Worten Esai. 43. Fürchte dich nicht denn ich habe dich erlöset for six voices, a wedding motet
- Sigismondo d'India – First book of motets for four voices
- Carlo Milanuzzi – Concerto sacro di salmi intieri for two and three voices, book 1, Op. 14
- Francesco Pasquali – Third book of madrigals, Op. 5
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
Deaths
- March 23 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer
- May 2 – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer and monk
- August 21 – Jacques Mauduit, composer
- November 30 – Pedro Ruimonte, musician and composer
- December – Thomas Lupo the elder, viol player and composer
- date unknown
- *Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, poet and composer
- *Leone Leoni, composer