Music year 1703
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
- From March at the latest, Johann Sebastian Bach will be employed as a lackey and violinist in the private band of co-regent Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar . During an organ rehearsal on March 17th, he made contacts with the council in Arnstadt . On August 9th he received his appointment as organist of the New Church in Arnstadt without any further audition . For an unusually high salary of 50 guilders and 30 guilders for board and lodging, Bach is officially only responsible for organ playing at the New Church, but later also required to work with the choir of the lyceum.
- Summer: Georg Friedrich Händel gives up his law studies at the University in Halle and goes to Hamburg. There, under the direction of the composer Reinhard Keizer, the first bourgeois German opera house , which opened in 1678 on Gänsemarkt as an opera theater , is flourishing . In that opera orchestra, Handel initially played the violin and later the harpsichord. He befriends the composer, conductor and singer Johann Mattheson . When the post of the famous composer and organist Dieterich Buxtehude at Lübeck's Marienkirche becomes vacant because he wants to retire because of his old age, Handel and Mattheson travel together to Lübeck in August . But neither of them applies for the position, because according to tradition, the successful candidate would have to marry Buxtehude's eldest daughter.
- Johann Sebastian Bach takes down the newly built organ from the organ builder Johann Friedrich Wender in the New Church in Arnstadt in Thuringia .
- Nicolas Bernier publishes his first cantatas.
- Jakob Greber makes his London debut as a theater composer.
- Reinhard Keizer ran the opera house on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg from 1703 to 1707 together with the dramaturge Drüsicke .
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Alessandro Scarlatti becomes Maestro di Cappella in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome . Since there since 1698 by a decree of Pope Innocent XII. all theater and opera performances are forbidden, Scarlatti devotes himself - apart from a few operas which he wrote between 1703 and 1706 for the private performances of Cosimo de 'Medici - mainly to sacred music .
Alessandro Scarlatti - Arminio - Title page of the libretto from 1703 - The first operas by Domenico Scarlatti are performed in Naples from 1703 .
- Agostino Steffani becomes rector and curator at Heidelberg University .
- Antonio Vivaldi , as maestro di violino, looks after the orchestra of the Ospedale della Pietà, one of four homes in Venice for orphan girls.
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- July 1st : The Singspiel in three acts The seduced Claudius by Reinhard Keizer with a libretto by Heinrich Hinsch has its world premiere at the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. With this opera, Keizer and his librettist Hinsch introduce individual Italian arias for the first time into an opera that is actually German. This practice became the standard in Hamburg in the following years.
- September 27 : The opera Arminio by Alessandro Scarlatti based on the libretto by Antonio Salvi is performed for the first time in the Villa Pratolino in Florence . The content of the opera is based on the life of Arminius , the prince of the Cherusci , who inflicted one of their most devastating defeats on the Romans in the Varus Battle in 9 AD with the annihilation of three legions.
- Carlo Agostino Badia - La Psiche ( Vienna )
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Antonio Caldara
- Farnace
- Gli equivoci del sembiante
- Francesco Gasparini - Cupid della patria
- Two further operas by Reinhard Keizer will be premiered in Hamburg:
- the Singspiel in three acts The Birth of Minerva on the libretto by Heinrich Hinsch
- the Singspiel in three acts The white triumphant over love / or: Salomon on the libretto by Christian Friedrich Hunold based on Salomon by Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig or Johann Christian Knorr von Rosenroth
- The lyrical tragedy Ulysse by Jean-Fery Rebel is at the Académie royale de musique premiered.
- Domenico Scarlatti
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L'Ottavia Ristituita al Trono (Naples, libretto by Giulio Convò; 32 solo arias and two duets have been preserved)
The organ by Andreas Silbermann and Gottfried Silbermann in the Protestant St. Gallus Church in Ittenheim (Bas-Rhin). - Il Giustino (Naples, libretto by Giulio Convò after Nicolò Beregan ; 21 solo arias and three duets have survived )
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Instrumental music
Chamber music
- William Corbett - The Instrumental Musick for January, February and March , for 2 flutes and bc
Vocal music
Spiritually
- Tomaso Albinoni - I trionfi di Giosuè (joint work with Alessandro Scarlatti , Giovanni Battista Bononcini and others)
- Nicolas Bernier - Premier livre de motets à 1, 2, et 3 voix
- François Couperin - Quatre versets d'un motet
Worldly
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William Corbett
- As You Find It
- Love Betrayed, or The Agreeable Disappointment
Textbooks
- Johann Kuhnau - Fundamenta compositionis (treatise)
Instrument making
- Johann Friedrich Wender completes his organ in the New Church , today's Bach Church in Arnstadt.
- Andreas Silbermann and his brother Gottfried Silbermann complete the organ for the St. Margaret Monastery in Strasbourg . The organ has been in the Protestant St. Gallus Church in Ittenheim (Bas-Rhin) since 1793 .
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Antonio Stradivari makes the violins Dancla , Montbel , Allegretti , Alsager , Emiliani and Lady Harmsworth.
Born
- January 20 : Joseph-Hector Fiocco , violinist and composer from the Habsburg Netherlands († 1741 )
- April 15 : Luisa Bergalli , Venetian poet and librettist († 1779 )
- May 8 : Gottlob Harrer , German composer and Thomaskantor († 1755 )
- May 12 : Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer , French composer, harpsichordist and singer († 1755 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Matthew Dubourg , Irish violin virtuoso and composer († 1767 )
- Johann Gottlieb Graun , German violinist and composer († 1771 )
- Johann Peter Migendt , German organ builder († 1767 )
- Johann Friedrich Lampe , German-British composer and bassoonist († 1751 )
Died
- March 31 : Johann Christoph Bach , German composer (* 1642 )
- September 14th : Gilles Jullien , French composer and organist (* around 1653 )
- October 3 : Alessandro Melani , Italian composer, singer and conductor (* 1639 )
- November 30th Nicolas de Grigny , French composer (* 1672 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Andrés Lorente , Spanish music theorist, organist and composer (* 1624 )
- Johann Jacob Löwe , German court music director and organist (* 1629 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1703 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1703 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files