- 1703 in music
The year 1703 in music involved some significant events.
Events
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Johann Sebastian Bach gets a summer job as a violinist at the court of Weimar.
*Antonio Vivaldi starts composing for the Ospedale della Pietà inVenice .
*Alessandro Scarlatti becomes Maestro di Cappella atSanta Maria Maggiore inRome .
*George Frideric Handel gives up his legal studies at theUniversity 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 theFrench language .Classical music
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Gaspard Corrette - "Organ mass"
*François Couperin - "Quatre versets d'un motet" (sacred music)Opera
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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
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John Frederick Lampe , musician (died1751 )Deaths
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March 31 -Johann Christoph Bach , organist and composer (born1642 )
*November 30 -Nicolas de Grigny , organist and composer (born1672 )
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