1644 in music

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The year 1644 in music involved some significant events and new musical works.

Events

• 21 June – Future Dean of Salisbury Thomas Pierce graduates M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he is noted as a "musician and poet".
• date unknown – Pieter and François Hemony cast the world's first tuned carillon, which is installed in Zutphen's Wijnhuistoren. ^[1]

Classical music

• Nicolaus à Kempis – Symphoniae, vol. 1
• Bonaventura Rubino – Vespro dello Stellario
• Barbara Strozzi – Il primo libro di madrigali

Opera

• Francesco Sacrati – La finta pazza
• Sigmund Theophil Staden – Seelewig, the first German singspiel
• Francesco Cavalli – La Deidamia and L'Ormindo

Births

• January 14 – Thomas Britton, English concert promoter (died 1714)
• August 12 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, German composer of sonatas (died 1704) ^[2]
• December 23 – 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)

References

1. Lehr, André (1991). The Art of the Carillon in the Low Countries. Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo. ISBN   90-209-1917-2.
2. Palisca, Claude V. (1991). Baroque Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. pp. 153, 160.
3. Thompson, Oscar; Slonimsky, Nicholas; Sabin, Robert; Bohle, Bruce, eds. (1985). The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (11th ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. ISBN   0-396-08412-5.