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The year 1628 in music involved some significant events.
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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)
