1673 in music

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The year 1673 in music involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] 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.

[edit] Published popular music

[edit] Classical music

• Giovanni Legrenzi
  • Violin Duo and continuo
  • La Cetra (Op. 10), a collection of sonatas

[edit] Opera

• Wolfgang Carl Briegel - Das verliebte Gespenst
• Jean-Baptiste Lully - Cadmus et Hermione
• Antonio Sartorio - Orfeo
• Pietro Andrea Ziani - Marcello in Siracuse

[edit] Births

• June 18 - Antonio de Literes, composer of zarzuelas (d. 1747)
• October 26 - Dimitrie Cantemir, composer, musicologist and polymath (d. 1723)
• date unknown - Johannes Kelpius, "the first Pennsylvanian composer" (died 1708)

[edit] Deaths

• date unknown - Lemme Rossi, music theorist