1644 in music
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Template:Redirect category shell 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]
Publications
- Johannes Eccard & Johann Stobaeus – Part 2 of Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Prussian Feast-day Songs: from Easter to Advent) for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Königsberg: Johann Reusnern)
Classical music
- Nicolaus à Kempis – Script error: No such module "Lang"., vol. 1
- Bonaventura Rubino – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Barbara Strozzi – Script error: No such module "Lang".
Opera
- Francesco Sacrati – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Sigmund Theophil Staden – Script error: No such module "Lang"., the first German Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Francesco Cavalli – Script error: No such module "Lang". and Script error: No such module "Lang".
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)
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- 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)