1644 in music

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 for five, six, seven, and eight voices

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
• August 12 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, German composer of sonatas
• December 23 – Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, Peruvian organist and composer
• date unknown
• *Maria Cattarina Calegari, Italian composer, singer, organist, and nun
• *Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, Czech organist and composer
• probable
• *Ignazio Albertini, Italian violinist and composer
• *Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer of sonatas

Deaths

• Robert Ramsey, British organist and composer