1683 in music

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

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