1703 in music

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The year 1703 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • January – Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst III in Weimar, his first such professional appointment, although probably including menial duties.[1]
  • by July – George Frideric Handel takes a position as violinist and harpsichordist in the orchestra of the Hamburg Oper am Gänsemarkt.[2]
  • 14 August – J. S. Bach accepts the post of organist at the New Church, Arnstadt.[3]
  • September – Antonio Vivaldi, newly ordained as a priest, is appointed maestro di violino (master of violin) at the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage in Venice, for which he begins teaching and composing.[4]
  • ca. December – Alessandro Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
  • Nicolas Bernier publishes his first cantatas, the earliest in the French language.

Classical music

  • Henricus Albicastro – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op.5
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Concerto and Fugue in C minor, BWV 909
    • Denket doch, ihr Menschenkinder, BWV 1122
    • Wo Gott zum Haus nicht gibt sein Gunst, BWV 1123
    • Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 1124
    • O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 1125
  • Giovanni Bononcini – Proteo sul Reno
  • Sébastien de Brossard
    • Abraham ou le sacrifice d'Isaac
    • Judith ou la mort d'Holopherne
  • Antonio Caldara – La castità al cimento
  • André Campra – Motets, Livre 3
  • Gaspard Corrette – Messe du 8e Ton pour l’Orgue
  • François Couperin – Quatre versets d'un motet (sacred music)
  • George Frideric Handel – Keyboard Sonata in C major, HWV 577
  • Christian Liebe – Machet die Tore weit
  • Louis Marchand – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 2
  • James Paisible - Six sonatas of two parts for two flutes, Op. 1
  • Andrew Parcham – Recorder Sonata in G major
  • Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Casimiro, re di Polonia
  • Andreas Heinrich Schultze – 6 Recorder Sonatas

Opera

  • Antonio Caldara
    • Farnace
    • Gli equivoci del sembiante
  • Francesco Gasparini – Amor della patria[5]
  • Antonio Quintavalle – Il trionfo d'amore
  • Domenico Scarlatti – Il Giustino

Musical theater

  • William Corbett – As You Find It

Births

  • 20 January – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer and violinist (died 1741)
  • 29 January – Carlmann Kolb, priest, organist and composer (died 1765)[6]
  • date unknown
    • Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (died 1777)[7]
    • John Frederick Lampe, musician (died 1751)
    • John Travers, organist and composer (died 1758)
    • Johann Gottlieb Graun, German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist (died 1771)

Deaths

  • March 31 – Johann Christoph Bach, organist and composer (born 1642)[8]
  • September 14 – Gilles Jullien, composer and organist (born 1639)
  • October 3 – Alessandro Melani, composer (b. 1639
  • November 30 – Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer (born 1672)[9]
  • probable – Jacek Różycki, composer (born c.1635)

References

  1. Boyd, Malcolm (2000). Bach. Oxford University Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-0-19-514222-8.
  2. Burrows, Donald (1994). Handel. Oxford University Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-19-816470-X.
  3. Wolff, Christoph; Emery, Walter (2001-01-20). "Bach, Johann Sebastian". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.6002278195. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription, Wikilibrary access, or UK public library membership required)
  4. Talbot, Michael (2020) [2001]. "Vivaldi, Antonio". In Lockey, Nicholas (ed.). Grove Music Online. Revised by Nicholas Lockey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40120. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription, Wikilibrary access, or UK public library membership required)
  5. Clément, Félix; Larousse, Pierre (1999). Dictionnaire lyrique ou Histoire des opéras (in French). Slatkine. p. 32. ISBN 9782051016964.
  6. Stanley Sadie (1980). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1.
  7. Randel Don (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 490. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.
  8. Boston Symphony Orchestra (1894). Programme. The Orchestra. p. 403.
  9. Paul E. Eisler (1972). World Chronology of Music History: 1594-1684. Oceana Publications. p. 432. ISBN 978-0-379-16082-6.
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