The year 1622 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• The Masque of Augurs, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace, probably on Twelfth Night, January 6. The masque features music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger and Nicholas Lanier (but only one song by Lanier will survive).

Classical music

• Salamone Rossi Il quarto libro de varie sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, branle, e corrente per sonar due violini, et un chittarone o altro stromento simile
• Thomas Tomkins Songs Of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts

Opera

• Francesca Caccini Il martirio di Sant'Agata

Births

• date unknown - Gaspar de Verlit, composer (died 1682)

Deaths

• January 1 Jakob Hassler, composer (born 1569)
• February 11 Alfonso Fontanelli, composer and writer (born 1557)
• October 26 - Sebasti n de Vivanco, priest and composer (born c.1551)
• November - Giovanni Battista Grillo, organist and composer
• date unknown Giovanni Paolo Cima, organist and composer (born c. 1570)

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