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.

Published popular music

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

• June 18 – Antonio de Literes, composer of zarzuelas (d. 1747)
• October 26 – Dimitrie Cantemir, composer, musicologist and polymath (d. 1723)
• date unknown – Johannes Kelpius, the first Pennsylvanian composer (died 1708)

Deaths

• date unknown – Lemme Rossi, music theorist