1673 in music
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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.
Publications
- Giovanni Maria Bononcini â Musico prattico, Op.8
- Erasmus Gruber â Synopsis musica
- Matthew Locke â The Present Practice of Musick
Classical music
- Giovanni-Battista Agneletti â Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Battalia à 10[1]
- Cristofaro Caresana â La Tarentella
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Ouverture et intermèdes, H.494
- Symphonie devant Regina, H.509
- Prélude, H.510
- Prélude, H.512
- Agostino Guerrieri â 13 Sonatas, Op. 1
- Sebastien Knüpfer â Erforsche mich, Gott (May 14)
- Giovanni Legrenzi
- Violin Duo and continuo[clarification needed]
- La Cetra (Op. 10), a collection of sonatas
- Matthew Locke â Melothesia
- Jean-Baptiste Lully â La pastorale comique, LWV 33
Opera
- Wolfgang Carl Briegel â Das verliebte Gespenst
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Cadmus et Hermione
- Alceste
- Antonio Sartorio â Orfeo
- Pietro Andrea Ziani â Marcello in Siracuse
- Matthew Locke â Psyche
Births
- January 30 â Marc-Antoine Legrand, lyricist (died 1728)
- February 1 â Alessandro Marcello, composer (d. 1747)
- April 16 â Francesco Feroci, composer (d. 1750)
- June 18 â Antonio de Literes, composer of zarzuelas (died 1747)
- July 25 â Santiago de Murcia, guitarist and composer (died 1739)
- August 28 â Conrad Michael Schneider, composer (died 1752)
- September 29 â Jacques Hotteterre, composer (d. 1763)
- October 26 â Dimitrie Cantemir, composer, musicologist and polymath (d. 1723)
- date unknown â Johannes Kelpius, the first Pennsylvanian composer (died 1708)
Deaths
- February 2 â Kaspar Förster, composer and musician (born by 1616)
- February 17 â Molière, opera librettist (born 1622)
- date unknown â Lemme Rossi, music theorist