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

  Opera

• Francesca Caccini – La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
• 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 and organist
• November 16 – Paolo Quagliati, composer
• date unknown – Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, Sufi saint, poet, author and composer