Overview of the events of 1683 in music
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The following events in the field of music occurred in the year 1683.
Events
- Henry Purcell becomes organ maker and keeper of the king's instruments at the Chapel Royal.
- Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers publishes his Dissertation sur le chant grégorien
- Thomas D’Urfey publishes New Collection of Songs and Poems
- Michel Richard Delalande appointed Chapel Master for Versailles by King Louis XIV
Classical music
- Giovanni Battista Bassani – 12 sinfonie, Op. 5
- Heinrich Biber – Fidicinium sacro-profanum
- Dietrich Buxtehude
- Canite Jesu nostro, BuxWV 11
- Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BuxWV 33
- Ich bin die Auferstehung und das Leben, BuxWV 44
- Ich halte es dafür, BuxWV 48
- Marc Antoine Charpentier
- Pro omnibus festis B V M, H.333
- Orphée descendant aux enfers, H.471
- Ouverture pour l’église, H.524
- Michel Richard Delalande
- Les fontaines de Versailles, S.133, premiered April 5 in Versailles
- Concert d'Esculape, S.134, premiered in May in Versailles
- 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
- Isabella Leonarda – 12 Sonatas, Op.16
- Johann Pachelbel – Musicalische Sterbens-Gedancken, which included:
- Christus, der ist mein Leben, P.376
- Alle Menschen müssen sterben, P.377a
- Hertzlich tut mich verlangen, P.378
- Was Gott thut, das ist wolgethan, P.379
- Freu dich sehr o meine Seele
- Various Suites for keyboard
- David Petersen – Speelstukken
- Henry Purcell
- Fly, bold rebellion, Z.324
- From hardy climes and dangerous toils of war, Z.325
- Sonnata's of III. Parts (set of 12 trio sonatas, for two violins, bass, and basso continuo), published in London, Z.790-801
- 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)
- Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist (died 1764)
Deaths
- September 6 – Johann Melchior Gletle, organist and composer (born 1626)
- December 15 – Izaak Walton, librettist (born c. 1594)
- 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) . Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 284. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.