1628 in music

Events

• July 10 – Heinrich Schütz seeks a travel warrant from Johann Georg, Elector of Saxony, to return to Venice to visit Monteverdi and Alessandro Grandi.
• November 22 – Girolamo Frescobaldi is given permission by St Peter's Basilica to leave Rome.

Published popular music

• Carlo Farina
• *Il quarto libro delle pavane, gagliarde, balletti, volte, passamezi, sonate, canzon
• *Fünffter Theil newer Pavanen, Brand: Mascharaden, Balletten, Sonaten
• Melchior Franck
• *Rosetulum musicum for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices with basso continuo
• *Sacri Convivii Musica Sacra for four, five, and six voices, a collection of motets
• *Zwey Neue Musicalische Concert for three choirs, two wedding motets
• *Suspirium Germaniae Publicum for four and seven voices, two motets
• Vinko Jelić
• *Arion primus sacrorum concentuum for one, two, three, and four voices with organ bass, Op. 2
• *Arion secundus psalmorum vespertinorum for four voices with organ bass, Op. 3
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Cantiones sacrae, vol. 1
• Carlo Milanuzzi – Sixth book of ariose vaghezze for solo voice with accompaniment, Op. 15
• Peter Philips – Paradisus sacris cantionibus consitus for one, two, and three voices with organ bass

Opera

• Francesca Caccini – La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
• Marco da Gagliano – La Flora, performed at the Teatro Mediceo on October 14 to celebrate the wedding of Odoardo Farnese and Margherita de Medici
• Nicholas Lanier – A musical setting of Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander
• Claudio Monteverdi – Il Ballo delle Ingrate

Births

• January 1 – Christoph Bernhard, German composer
• date unknown – Robert Cambert, French composer of opera

Deaths

• January 21 – Gregor Aichinger, composer
• March – Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, viol player and composer
• March 12 or 13 – John Bull (composer), composer and organist
• November 16 – Paolo Quagliati, composer
• date unknown – Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, Sufi saint, poet, author and composer