1644 in music
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The year 1644 in music involved some significant events and new musical works.
Events
- 21 June â Future Dean of Salisbury Thomas Pierce graduates M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he is noted as a "musician and poet".
- date unknown â Pieter and François Hemony cast the world's first tuned carillon, which is installed in Zutphen's Wijnhuistoren.[1]
Publications
- Johannes Eccard & Johann Stobaeus â Part 2 of Der Preussischen Fest-Lieder: Von Ostern an bià Advent (The Prussian Feast-day Songs: from Easter to Advent) for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Königsberg: Johann Reusnern)
Classical music
- Nicolaus à Kempis â Symphoniae, vol. 1
- Bonaventura Rubino â Vespro dello Stellario
- Barbara Strozzi â Il primo libro di madrigali
Opera
- Francesco Sacrati â La finta pazza
- Sigmund Theophil Staden â Seelewig, the first German singspiel
- Francesco Cavalli â La Deidamia and L'Ormindo
Births
- January 14 â Thomas Britton, English concert promoter (died 1714)
- August 12 â Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, German composer of sonatas (died 1704)[2]
- December 23 â Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, Peruvian organist and composer (died 1728)
- date unknown
- Maria Cattarina Calegari, Italian composer, singer, organist, and nun (died after 1675)[3]
- Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, Czech organist and composer (died 1718)
- probable
- Ignazio Albertini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1685)
- Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer of sonatas (died 1692)[2]
Deaths
- Robert Ramsey, British organist and composer (born 1590s)