1713 in music
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Events
- Foundation of the Académie Royale de Danse by King Louis XIV of FranceLouis XIV of FranceLouis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
. - Daniel PurcellDaniel PurcellDaniel Purcell was an English composer, the younger brother of Henry Purcell.As a teenager, Daniel Purcell joined the choir of the Chapel Royal, and in his mid-twenties he became organist of Magdalen College, Oxford. He began to compose while at Oxford, but in 1695 he moved to London to compose...
becomes organist at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, London. - Francesco Bartolomeo ContiFrancesco Bartolomeo ContiFrancesco Bartolomeo Conti was an Italian composer and player of the mandolin and theorbo.Little is known about the biography of Conti. He was born in Florence, Italy. By 1700 he was already known as a theorbist not only in his native Florence, but also in other cities such as Ferrara and Milan...
becomes court composer to the Habsburgs in Vienna. - Giuseppe TartiniGiuseppe TartiniGiuseppe Tartini was an Italian baroque composer and violinist.-Biography:Tartini was born in Piran, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice to Gianantonio – native of Florence – and Caterina Zangrando, a descendant of one of the oldest aristocratic Piranian families.It...
claims to have had a dream in which he allows the devil to play his violin. - Antonio StradivariAntonio StradivariAntonio Stradivari was an Italian luthier and a crafter of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas, and harps. Stradivari is generally considered the most significant artisan in this field. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial, "Strad", is...
makes the Gibson StradivariusGibson StradivariusThe Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius of 1713 is an antique violin fabricated by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. The Gibson, while owned by Bronisław Huberman, was stolen twice...
. - April 14 Possible premiere of 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...
's St Mark Passion pasticheSt Mark Passion pasticheIn 1754, the musician and theorist Lorenz Christoph Mizler published as an addendum in the most recent volume of his Neu eröffnete musikalische Bibliothek a series of three obituaries of recently deceased members of his Korrespondierende Sozietät der Musicalischen Wissenschaften...
at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).
Classical music
- Johann Heinrich ButtstettJohann Heinrich ButtstettJohann Heinrich Buttstett was a German Baroque organist and composer...
– Musicalische Clavier-Kunst und Vorraths-Kammer - Louis-Nicolas ClérambaultLouis-Nicolas ClérambaultLouis-Nicolas Clérambault was a French musician, best known as an organist and composer. He was born and died in Paris.-Biography:...
– Leandre et Hero (cantata) - 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...
– Pièces de clavecin, book 1 - 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...
– Utrecht Te Deum and JubilateUtrecht Te Deum and JubilateUtrecht Te Deum and Jubilate is a sacred choral composition in two parts, written by George Frideric Handel to celebrate the Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, ending the War of the Spanish Succession. The combination of a Te Deum and Jubilate, the Psalm 100, follows...
, Ode for the Birthday of Queen AnneOde for the Birthday of Queen AnneOde for the Birthday of Queen Anne is a secular cantata composed by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Ambrose Philips. It was probably composed during January 1713 for a performance on 6 February 1713...
Opera
- Francesco FeoFrancesco FeoFrancesco Feo was an Italian composer, known chiefly for his operas. He was born and died in Naples, where most of his operas were premièred.-Life:...
– L'amor tirannico, ossia Zenobia - Nicola PorporaNicola PorporaNicola Porpora was an Italian composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli. One of his other students was composer Matteo Capranica.-Biography:Porpora was born in Naples...
– Basilio re d'oriente - 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...
– Orlando Furioso
Births
- January 7 – Giovanni Battista LocatelliGiovanni Battista LocatelliGiovanni Battista Locatelli was an Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company.In 1757 he and his troupe were invited to St. Petersburg. They put on an opera every week for the court, and two to three times a week they were allowed to give open public performances. The...
, opera director (1785) - February 13 – Domènech TerradellasDomènech TerradellasDomènec Terradellas was a Spanish opera composer, although all his works were thoroughly Italian in style. Born in Barcelona, the son of a day laborer, his early musical training is unknown...
, composer (died 1751) - March – Giammaria OrtesGiammaria OrtesAbbé Giovanni Maria Ortes was a Venetian composer, economist, mathematician, Camaldolese monk, and philosopher.- Works :* Della economia nazionale * Sulla religione e sul governo dei popoli...
, Venetian composer and polymath (d. 1790) - March 12 – Johann Adolph HassJohann Adolph HassJohann Adolph Rudolph Hass was a German clavichord and harpsichord maker, the son of Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, who was also a clavier maker...
, clavichord and harpsichord maker (died 1771) - April 7 – Nicola SalaNicola SalaNicola Sala was an Italian composer and music theorist born in Tocco Caudio and died in Naples. He was chapel-master and professor at Naples, having devoted himself to the collection of the finest models of printed music...
, composer and music theorist (died 1801) - April 13 – Pierre JélyottePierre JélyottePierre Jélyotte was a French operatic tenor, particularly associated with works by Rameau, Lully, Campra, and Destouches.-Life and career:...
, operatic tenor (died 1797) - October 3 – Antoine DauvergneAntoine DauvergneAntoine Dauvergne was a French composer and violinist. Dauvergne served as master of the Chambre du roi, director of the Concert Spirituel from 1762 to 1771, and director of the Opéra three times between 1769 and 1790...
, violinist and composer (died 1797) - October 24 – Marie FelMarie FelMarie Fel was a French opera singer, daughter of the organist Henri Fel.Marie Fel was born at Bordeaux. She made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1733 and sang regularly at the Concert Spirituel...
, opera singer (died 1794) - October – Johann Ludwig KrebsJohann Ludwig KrebsJohann Ludwig Krebs was a Rococo musician and composer primarily for the pipe organ.-Life:Krebs was born in 1713 in Buttelstedt, Germany to Johann Tobias Krebs, a well-known organist. J. Tobias had at least three sons who were considered musically talented, and J...
, composer (died 1780) - December 10 – Johann Nicolaus MempelJohann Nicolaus MempelJohann Nicolaus Mempel was a German musician.He was born in Heyda . From 1740 to his death, he was cantor in Apolda...
, musician (died 1747) - date unknown
- Johan Henrik FreithoffJohan Henrik FreithoffJohan Henrik Freithoff was a Norwegian-Danish violinist and composer.-External links:...
, violinist and composer (died 1767) - Johannes Erasmus IversenJohannes Erasmus IversenJohannes Erasmus Iversen was a Danish Baroque composer. He also worked as a teacher, musician, conductor and a concert organizer.- Life :...
, composer (died 1755)
- Johan Henrik Freithoff
- probable – Robert BremnerRobert BremnerRobert Bremner or Brymer was a Scottish music publisher. Evidence suggests that he may have born on 9 September 1713 in Edinburgh to John Brymer and Margaret Urie, and had a younger brother named James, but little else is known about his early life...
, music publisher (died 1789)
Deaths
- January 8 – Arcangelo CorelliArcangelo CorelliArcangelo Corelli was an Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music.-Biography:Corelli was born at Fusignano, in the current-day province of Ravenna, although at the time it was in the province of Ferrara. Little is known about his early life...
, composer and violinist (born 1653) - March 26 – Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of GalánthaPaul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of GalánthaPaul I, Prince Esterházy of Galántha was the first Prince Esterházy of Galántha from 1687 to 1713, Palatine of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1681 to 1713, and an Imperial Field Marshal...
, composer - March 30 – Govert BidlooGovert BidlooGovert Bidloo or Govard Bidloo was a Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright. He was the personal physician of William III of Orange-Nassau, Dutch stadholder and king of England....
, opera librettist (born 1649) - October 28 – Paolo LorenzaniPaolo LorenzaniPaolo Francesco Lorenzani was an Italian composer of the Baroque Era. While living in France, he helped promote appreciation for the Italian style of music....
, composer (b. 1640) - date unknown – Ludovico RoncalliLudovico RoncalliCount Ludovico Roncalli , or simply Count Ludovico, was an Italian nobleman who published a collection of suites for five-course baroque guitar, Capricci armonici sopra la chitarra spagnola , in 1692. This was transcribed to modern notation and arranged for the six-string guitar by Oscar...
, composer for guitar (born 1654) - probable – Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński, composer