1703 in music
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The year 1703 in music involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Johann Sebastian Bach gets a summer job as a violinist at the court of Weimar.
- Antonio Vivaldi starts composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice.
- Alessandro Scarlatti becomes Maestro di Cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
- George Frideric Handel 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 Bernier publishes his first cantatas, the earliest in the French language.
[edit] Classical music
- Gaspard Corrette - Organ mass
- François Couperin - Quatre versets d'un motet (sacred music)
[edit] Opera
- Antonio Caldara
- Farnace
- Gli equivoci del sembiante
- Francesco Gasparini - Amor della patria
- Antonio Quintavalle - Il trionfo d'amore
- Domenico Scarlatti - Il Giustino
[edit] Musical theater
- William Corbett - As You Find It
[edit] Births
- date unknown - John Frederick Lampe, musician (died 1751)
[edit] Deaths
- March 31 - Johann Christoph Bach, organist and composer (born 1642)
- November 30 - Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer (born 1672)
