1683 in music
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The year 1683 in music involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Henry Purcell becomes organ maker and keeper of the king’s instruments at the Chapel Royal.
[edit] Published popular music
[edit] Classical music
- Michel Richard Delalande - De profundis, a grand motet, first performed in September, in the Saint Denis Basilica (burial site of French monarchs), for the repose of the soul of Queen Marie-Therèse[1]
- Henry Purcell - first set of sonatas for two violins, bass, and basso continuo
[edit] Opera
- John Blow - Venus and Adonis
- Domenico Gabrielli - Il Gige in Lidia
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor - Der thöreichte Schaffer
- Jean-Baptiste Lully - Phaëton
- Alessandro Scarlatti - Pompeo
[edit] Births
- January 6 - François de La Croix, composer
- January 14 - Gottfried Silbermann, German constructor of keyboard instruments (died 1753)
- September 25 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (died 1764)
- date unknown - Christoph Graupner, composer (died 1760)
- date unknown - Johann David Heinichen, composer and music theorist (died 1729)
[edit] Deaths
- July - Alessandro Poglietti, organist and composer
- date unknown
- Solomon Eccles, composer
- John Hingeston, organist, violist and composer
[edit] References
- ^ Palisca, Claude V. [1968] (1991). Baroque Music, 3rd, Prentice Hall History of Music, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 284. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
