1703 in music

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The year 1703 in music involved some significant events.

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Johann Sebastian Bach gets a job as a violinist and lackey at the lesser court in Weimar.
Johann Sebastian Bach accepts post of Organist at the New Church in Arnstadt August 1703.
Antonio Vivaldi starts composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice.
Alessandro Scarlatti becomes Maestro di Cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
George Frideric Handel gives up his legal studies at the University of Halle for a music course at Hamburg.
Jakob Greber makes his London debut as a theatre composer.
Nicolas Bernier publishes his first cantatas, the earliest in the French language.

Henricus Albicastro – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op.5
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Concerto and Fugue in C minor, BWV 909
- Denket doch, ihr Menschenkinder, BWV 1122
- Wo Gott zum Haus nicht gibt sein Gunst, BWV 1123
- Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 1124
- O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 1125
Giovanni Bononcini – Proteo sul Reno
Sébastien de Brossard
- Abraham ou le sacrifice d'Isaac
- Judith ou la mort d'Holopherne
Antonio Caldara – La castità al cimento
André Campra – Motets, Livre 3
Gaspard Corrette – Messe du 8e Ton pour l’Orgue
François Couperin – Quatre versets d'un motet (sacred music)
George Frideric Handel – Keyboard Sonata in C major, HWV 577
Christian Liebe – Machet die Tore weit
Louis Marchand – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 2
James Paisible - Six sonatas of two parts for two flutes, Op. 1
– Recorder Sonata in G major
Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Casimiro, re di Polonia
– 6 Recorder Sonatas

20 January – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer and violinist (died 1741)
29 January – Carlmann Kolb, priest, organist and composer (died 1765)^[2]
date unknown
- Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (died 1777)^[3]
- John Frederick Lampe, musician (died 1751)
- John Travers, organist and composer (died 1758)
- Johann Gottlieb Graun, German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist (died 1771)

^ Clément, Félix; Larousse, Pierre (1999). Dictionnaire lyrique ou Histoire des opéras (in French). Slatkine. p. 32. ISBN 9782051016964.
^ Stanley Sadie (1980). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1.
^ Randel Don (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 490. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.
^ Boston Symphony Orchestra (1894). Programme. The Orchestra. p. 403.
^ Paul E. Eisler (1972). World Chronology of Music History: 1594-1684. Oceana Publications. p. 432. ISBN 978-0-379-16082-6.