1644 in music

1644 in music

The year 1644 in music involved some significant events.

Events

Classical music

Opera

*Francesco Sacrati - "La finta pazza"
*Sigmund Theophil Staden - "Seelewig", the first German "singspiel"

Births

*August 12 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, German composer of sonatas (died 1704) [Palisca, Claude V. "Baroque Music" (1991) Prentice Hall:Englewood Cliffs, page 160]
*"possible" - Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer of sonatas (died 1692) [ibid. page 153]

Deaths

*"date unknown" - Robert Ramsey, English organist and composer

References


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