1673 in music

The year 1673 in music involved some significant events.

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, '.
• Henry Purcell is apprenticed to the organist John Hingeston.

• Wolfgang Carl Briegel – '
• Jean-Baptiste Lully
• Cadmus et Hermione
• Alceste
• Antonio Sartorio – Orfeo
• Pietro Andrea Ziani – Marcello in Siracuse
• Matthew Locke – Psyche

Births

• January 30 – Marc-Antoine Legrand, lyricist (died 1728)
• February 1 – Alessandro Marcello, composer (d. 1747)
• April 16 – , composer (d. 1750)
• June 18 – Antonio de Literes, composer of zarzuelas (died 1747)
• July 25 – Santiago de Murcia, guitarist and composer (died 1739)
• August 28 – , composer (died 1752)
• 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)
• February 17 – Molière, opera librettist (born 1622)
• date unknown – Lemme Rossi, music theorist

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