1703 in music

1703 in music

The year 1703 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*Johann Sebastian Bach gets a summer job as a violinist at the court of Weimar.
*Antonio Vivaldi starts composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice.
*Alessandro Scarlatti becomes Maestro di Cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
*George Frideric Handel gives up his legal studies at the University of Halle for a music course at Hamburg.
*Jakob Greber makes his London debut as a theatre composer.
*Nicolas Bernier publishes his first cantatas, the earliest in the French language.

Classical music

*Gaspard Corrette - "Organ mass"
*François Couperin - "Quatre versets d'un motet" (sacred music)

Opera

*Antonio Caldara
**"Farnace"
**"Gli equivoci del sembiante"
*Francesco Gasparini - "Amor della patria"
*Antonio Quintavalle - "Il trionfo d'amore"
*Domenico Scarlatti - "Il Giustino"

Musical theater

*William Corbett - "As You Find It"

Births

*"date unknown" - John Frederick Lampe, musician (died 1751)

Deaths

*March 31 - Johann Christoph Bach, organist and composer (born 1642)
*November 30 - Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer (born 1672)


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