1673 in music

1673 in music

The year 1673 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*John Blow becomes organist of Westminster Abbey.
*Agostino Steffani begins his studies in Rome under Ercole Bernabei.
*Johann Michael Bach becomes organist and town clerk of Gehren.
*Robert Cambert arrives in Britain.
*Giovanni Maria Bononcini publishes his treatise, "Musico prattico".
*Henry Purcell is apprenticed to the organist John Hingeston.

Published popular music

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Classical music

*Giovanni Legrenzi
**"Violin Duo and continuo"
**"La Cetra" (Op. 10), a collection of sonatas

Opera

*Wolfgang Carl Briegel - "Das verliebte Gespenst"
*Jean-Baptiste Lully - "Cadmus et Hermione"
*Antonio Sartorio - "Orfeo"
*Pietro Andrea Ziani - "Marcello in Siracuse"

Births

*June 18 - Antonio de Literes, composer of "zarzuelas" (d. 1747)
*October 26 - Dimitrie Cantemir, composer, musicologist and polymath (d. 1723)
*"date unknown" - Johannes Kelpius, "the first Pennsylvanian composer" (died 1708)

Deaths

*"date unknown" - Lemme Rossi, music theorist


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