1703 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Musical theater 5 Births 6 Deaths

[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 - Versets (sacred music)

[edit] Opera

• Antonio Caldara - Farnace
• 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)