title: 1683 in music
text: # 1683 in music
  
  The year 1683 in music involved some significant events.
  
  ## 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
  