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]

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)[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. 1 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.
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