1683 in music
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The year 1683 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Henry Purcell becomes organ maker and keeper of the king’s instruments at the Chapel Royal.
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
- Daniel Speer - Türkischer Vagant
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
Births
- January – Anthony Young, organist and composer (died 1747)
- January 14 – Gottfried Silbermann, German constructor of keyboard instruments (died 1753)
- April 17 - Johann David Heinichen, composer (died 1729)
- September 25 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (died 1764)
- date unknown
- Christoph Graupner, composer (died 1760)
- Johann David Heinichen, composer and music theorist (died 1729)
Deaths
- September 6 - Johann Melchior Gletle, organist and composer (born 1626)
- date unknown
- Solomon Eccles, composer (born 1618)
- John Hingston, organist, violist and composer
- Nathaniel Ingelo, writer and musician (born c.1621)
- Johann Sebastiani, composer (born 1622)
- Jacob Stainer, luthier (born c.1617)
- Alessandro Poglietti, organist and composer
References
- ↑ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 284. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.