1644 in music explained

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 German: Der Preussischen Fest-Lieder: Von Ostern an biß 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 – Latin: Symphoniae, vol. 1
• Bonaventura Rubino – Italian: Vespro dello Stellario
• Barbara Strozzi – Italian: Il primo libro di madrigali

Opera

• Francesco Sacrati – Italian: La finta pazza
• Sigmund Theophil Staden – German: Seelewig, the first German German: [[singspiel]]
• Francesco Cavalli – Latin: La Deidamia and Italian: 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. Book: Lehr, André. The Art of the Carillon in the Low Countries. Tielt, Belgium. Lannoo. 1991. 90-209-1917-2.
2. Book: Palisca, Claude V.. Baroque Music. 1991. Prentice Hall. Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 153, 160.
3. Book: Thompson, Oscar . Slonimsky, Nicholas . Sabin, Robert . Bohle, Bruce . The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. 11th. New York. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1985. 0-396-08412-5.