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The year 1626 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Tarquinio Merula returns to Cremona.
• Paolo Agostino succeeds Vincenzo Ugolini as conductor of the pope's orchestra in St. Peter's Basilica.

Classical music

• Giovanni Battista Buonamente - Il quarto libro de varie de sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, corrente, e brandi per sonar con due violini & un basso di viola, published in Venice
• Johann Hermann Schein - Opella nova (Little new works), volume 2, a collection of sacred concertos

Opera

• Domenico Mazzochi - La catena d'Adone

Births

• August 12 (baptized) - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (died 1690)
• probable - Louis Couperin, French harpsichordist and composer (died 1661)

Deaths

• February 20 - John Dowland, composer and lutenist (born 1563)
• date unknown

• John Cooper, English composer (born c.1570)
• Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)