1673 in music
The year 1673 in music involved some significant events.
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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.
Publications
- Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Musico prattico, Op.8
- Erasmus Gruber – Synopsis musica
- Matthew Locke – The Present Practice of Musick
Classical music
- Giovanni Legrenzi
- Violin Duo and continuo
- La Cetra (Op. 10), a collection of sonatas
- Matthew Locke – Melothesia
- Agostino Guerrieri – 13 Sonatas, Op. 1
- Heinrich Biber – Battalia à 10
- Jean-Baptiste Lully – La pastorale comique, LWV 33
- Cristofaro Caresana – La Tarentella
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Ouverture et intermèdes, H.494
- Symphonie devant Regina, H.509
- Prélude, H.510
- Prélude, H.512
Opera
- Wolfgang Carl Briegel – Das verliebte Gespenst
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Cadmus et Hermione
- Alceste
- Antonio Sartorio – Orfeo
- Pietro Andrea Ziani – Marcello in Siracuse
- Matthew Locke – Psyche
Births
- February 1 – Alessandro Marcello, composer (d. 1747)
- April 16 – Francesco Feroci, composer (d. 1750)
- June 18 – Antonio de Literes, composer of zarzuelas (d. 1747)
- July 25 – Santiago de Murcia, composer (d. 1739)
- September 29 – Jacques Hotteterre, composer (d. 1763)
- October 26 – Dimitrie Cantemir, composer, musicologist and polymath (d. 1723)
- date unknown – Johannes Kelpius, the first Pennsylvanian composer (died 1708)
Deaths
- February 2 – Kaspar Förster, composer and musician (born by 1616)
- date unknown – Lemme Rossi, music theorist
References
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