1713 in music

The year 1713 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Foundation of the Académie Royale de Danse by King Louis XIV of France.
• Daniel Purcell becomes organist at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, London.
• Francesco Bartolomeo Conti becomes court composer to the Habsburgs in Vienna.
• Giuseppe Tartini claims to have had a dream in which he allows the devil to play his violin.
• Antonio Stradivari makes the Gibson Stradivarius.

Classical music

• Johann Heinrich Buttstett – Musicalische Clavier-Kunst und Vorraths-Kammer
• Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Leandre et Hero (cantata)
• François Couperin – Pièces de clavecin, book 1
• George Frideric Handel – Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

Opera

• Francesco Feo – L'amor tirannico, ossia Zenobia
• Nicola Porpora – Basilio re d'oriente
• Antonio Vivaldi – Orlando Furioso

Births

• January 7 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, opera director (1785)
• February 13 – Domènech Terradellas, composer (died 1751)
• March – Giammaria Ortes, Venetian composer and polymath (d. 1790)
• March 12 – Johann Adolph Hass, clavichord and harpsichord maker (died 1771)
• April 7 – Nicola Sala, composer and music theorist (died 1801)
• April 13 – Pierre Jélyotte, operatic tenor (died 1797)
• October 3 – Antoine Dauvergne, violinist and composer (died 1797)
• October 13 – Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer (died 1780)
• October 24 – Marie Fel, opera singer (died 1794)
• December 10 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, musician (died 1747)
• date unknown
  • Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer (died 1767)
  • Johannes Erasmus Iversen, composer (died 1755)
• probable – Robert Bremner, music publisher (died 1789)

Deaths

• January 8 – Arcangelo Corelli, composer and violinist (born 1653)
• March 26 – Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha, composer
• March 30 – Govert Bidloo, opera librettist (born 1649)
• April 14 - Marcus Fronius, theologian, poet and musician (born 1659)
• October 28 – Paolo Lorenzani, composer (born 1640)
• October 31 - Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, patron of music (born 1663)
• date unknown – Ludovico Roncalli, composer for guitar (born 1654)
• probable – Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński, composer