1644 in music
# 1644 in 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.

## Publications

* Johannes Eccard & Johann Stobaeus – Part 2 of 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 – 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)
* 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)
   * 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)
