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)