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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