1644 in music

none 1644 music 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.Lehr André The Art of the Carillon in the Low Countries Tielt, Belgium Lannoo 1991 90-209-1917-2 Publications Johannes Eccard & Johann Stobaeus – Part 2 of de 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 – la Symphoniae, vol. 1 Bonaventura Rubino – it Vespro dello Stellario Barbara Strozzi – it Il primo libro di madrigali Opera Francesco Sacrati – it La finta pazza Sigmund Theophil Staden – de Seelewig, the first German de singspiel Francesco Cavalli – la La Deidamia and it L'Ormindo Births January 14 – Thomas Britton, English concert promoter (died 1714) August 12 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, German composer of sonatas (died 1704)Palisca Claude V. Baroque Music 1991 Prentice Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ 153, 160 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)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 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) Deaths Robert Ramsey, British organist and composer (born 1590s) References