1703 in music
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Events
- Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
gets a job as a violinist and lackey at the lesser court in Weimar. - Johann Sebastian Bach accepts post of Organist at the New Church in ArnstadtArnstadtArnstadt is a town in Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany, situated on the Gera River. It is one of the oldest towns in Thuringia and is nicknamed Das Tor zum Thüringer Wald, The Gate to the Thuringian Forest....
August 1703. - Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
starts composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
. - Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
becomes Maestro di Cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore in RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
. - George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
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 BernierNicolas BernierNicolas Bernier was a French composer.-Biography:He was born in Mantes-sur-Seine , the son of Rémy Bernier and Marguerite Bauly. He studied with Antonio Caldara and is known for an Italian-influenced style. After Marc-Antoine Charpentier he is probably the most Italian-influenced French composer...
publishes his first cantatas, the earliest in the French languageFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
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Classical music
- Gaspard CorretteGaspard CorretteGaspard Corrette was a French composer and organist.He was born around 1671, probably in Rouen where he was organist for the church of St-Herbland. In approximately 1720 he moved to Paris. The exact date of his death is not known...
– Organ mass - François CouperinFrançois CouperinFrançois Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.-Life:Couperin was born in Paris...
– Quatre versets d'un motet (sacred music)
Opera
- Antonio CaldaraAntonio CaldaraAntonio Caldara was an Italian Baroque composer.Caldara was born in Venice , the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni Legrenzi...
- Farnace
- Gli equivoci del sembiante
- Francesco GaspariniFrancesco GaspariniFrancesco Gasparini was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher whose works were performed throughout Italy, and also on occasion in Germany and England....
– Amor della patria - Antonio QuintavalleAntonio QuintavalleAntonio Quintavalle was an Italian opera composer. By 1703 and perhaps earlier he was chamber organist at the Mantuan court. He wrote music for three operas while he was in Mantua, one in collaboration with the maestro di cappella Antonio Caldara. In 1712 he became maestro di cappella of Trent...
– Il trionfo d'amore - Domenico ScarlattiDomenico ScarlattiGiuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
– Il Giustino
Births
- 20 January – Joseph-Hector FioccoJoseph-Hector FioccoJoseph-Hector Fiocco , born in Brussels, was a Flemish composer and violinist of the high and late Baroque period....
, composer and violinist (died 1741) - 29 January – Carlmann KolbCarlmann KolbCarlmann Kolb was a German priest, organist, and composer.He was born in Kösslarn, Griesbach, Lower Bavaria, and educated in Asbach and Landshut. He was ordained a priest in 1729 at the Benedictine Abbey of Asbach, and was also appointed organist there...
, priest, organist and composer (died 1765) - 27 October – Johann Gottlieb GraunJohann Gottlieb GraunJohann Gottlieb Graun was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist.Graun was born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was also a composer and singer. He studied with J.G. Pisendel in Dresden, and Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. Appointed Konzertmeister in Merseburg in 1726, he taught...
, composer and violinist (died 1771) - date unknown
- John Frederick LampeJohn Frederick LampeJohn Frederick Lampe was a musician.He was born in Saxony, but came to England in 1724 and played the bassoon in opera houses. His wife, Isabella Lampe, was sister-in-law to the composer Thomas Arne with whom Lampe collaborated on a number of concert seasons...
, musician (died 1751) - Jean-Marie Leclair the youngerJean-Marie Leclair the youngerJean-Marie Leclair le cadet, also known as Jean-Marie Leclair, the Younger was a French composer, and younger brother of the better-known Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné ....
, composer (died 1777) - John TraversJohn Travers (Composer)John Travers was an English composer who held the office of Organist to the Chapel Royal from 1737 to 1758. Before filling several parochial posts in London he had been a choir boy at St. George's Chapel, Windsor and a pupil of Johann Christoph Pepusch...
, organist and composer (died 1758)
- John Frederick Lampe
Deaths
- March 31 – Johann Christoph BachJohann Christoph BachJohann Christoph Bach was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. He was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's great uncle, hence he was Johann Sebastian's first cousin once removed. He was also the uncle of Maria Barbara Bach, J.S...
, organist and composer (born 16421642 in music-Events:*Bartolomeo Montalbano becomes Kapellmeister at San Francesco in Bologna.-Opera:* Francesco Cavalli – Amore innamorato* Claudio Monteverdi – L'incoronazione di Poppea* Luigi Rossi – Il Palazzo incantato-Births:...
) - September 14 – Gilles JullienGilles JullienGilles Jullien was a French Baroque composer and organist.He is credited with bringing the style of French organ music then current in Paris to Chartres....
, composer and organist (born 1639) - October 3 – Alessandro MelaniAlessandro MelaniAlessandro Melani was an Italian composer and the brother of composer Jacopo Melani, and castrato singer Atto Melani. Along with Bernardo Pasquini and Alessandro Scarlatti, he was one of the leading composers active in Rome during the 17th century...
, composer (b. 1639 - November 30 – Nicolas de GrignyNicolas de GrignyNicolas de Grigny was a French organist and composer. He died young and left behind a single collection of organ music, which together with the work of François Couperin, represents the pinnacle of French Baroque organ tradition.-Life:Nicolas de Grigny was born in 1672 in Reims in the parish of...
, organist and composer (born 16721672 in music-Events:*Arcangelo Corelli visits Paris, where he incurs the jealousy of Lully.*John Banister organizes Europe’s first major public concert series at Whitefriars in London.*Marc-Antoine Charpentier replaces Lully as Molière's regular musical collaborator.-Opera:...
) - probable – Jacek RóżyckiJacek RóżyckiJacek Hyancithus Różycki was a Polish composer of Baroque music. He began his musical career in the court orchestra of Władysław IV. Eventually he took over the function of the director of the court musical ensemble...
, composer (born c.1635)