1703 in music
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The year 1703 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- January â Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst III in Weimar, his first such professional appointment, although probably including menial duties.[1]
- by July â George Frideric Handel takes a position as violinist and harpsichordist in the orchestra of the Hamburg Oper am Gänsemarkt.[2]
- 14 August â J. S. Bach accepts the post of organist at the New Church, Arnstadt.[3]
- September â Antonio Vivaldi, newly ordained as a priest, is appointed maestro di violino (master of violin) at the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage in Venice, for which he begins teaching and composing.[4]
- ca. December â Alessandro Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
- Nicolas Bernier publishes his first cantatas, the earliest in the French language.
Classical music
- Henricus Albicastro â 6 Violin Sonatas, Op.5
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Giovanni Bononcini â Proteo sul Reno
- Sébastien de Brossard
- Abraham ou le sacrifice d'Isaac
- Judith ou la mort d'Holopherne
- Antonio Caldara â La castità al cimento
- André Campra â Motets, Livre 3
- Gaspard Corrette â Messe du 8e Ton pour lâOrgue
- François Couperin â Quatre versets d'un motet (sacred music)
- George Frideric Handel â Keyboard Sonata in C major, HWV 577
- Christian Liebe â Machet die Tore weit
- Louis Marchand â Pièces de clavecin, Livre 2
- James Paisible - Six sonatas of two parts for two flutes, Op. 1
- Andrew Parcham â Recorder Sonata in G major
- Alessandro Scarlatti â S. Casimiro, re di Polonia
- Andreas Heinrich Schultze â 6 Recorder Sonatas
Opera
- Antonio Caldara
- Farnace
- Gli equivoci del sembiante
- Francesco Gasparini â Amor della patria[5]
- Antonio Quintavalle â Il trionfo d'amore
- Domenico Scarlatti â Il Giustino
Musical theater
- William Corbett â As You Find It
Births
- 20 January â Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer and violinist (died 1741)
- 29 January â Carlmann Kolb, priest, organist and composer (died 1765)[6]
- date unknown
- Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (died 1777)[7]
- John Frederick Lampe, musician (died 1751)
- John Travers, organist and composer (died 1758)
- Johann Gottlieb Graun, German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist (died 1771)
Deaths
- March 31 â Johann Christoph Bach, organist and composer (born 1642)[8]
- September 14 â Gilles Jullien, composer and organist (born 1639)
- October 3 â Alessandro Melani, composer (b. 1639
- November 30 â Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer (born 1672)[9]
- probable â Jacek Różycki, composer (born c.1635)