title: 1703 in music
text: # 1703 in music
  
  The year 1703 in music involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * January – Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst III in Weimar, his first such professional appointment, although probably including menial duties.
  * by July – George Frideric Handel takes a position as violinist and harpsichordist in the orchestra of the Hamburg Oper am Gänsemarkt.
  * 14 August – J. S. Bach accepts the post of organist at the New Church, Arnstadt.
  * September – Antonio Vivaldi, newly ordained as a priest, is appointed maestro di violino (master of violin) at the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage in Venice, for which he begins teaching and composing.
  * ca. December – Alessandro Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
  * Nicolas Bernier publishes his first cantatas, the earliest in the French language.
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * 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
  * Andrew Parcham – Recorder Sonata in G major
  * Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Casimiro, re di Polonia
  * Andreas Heinrich Schultze – 6 Recorder Sonatas
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Antonio Caldara
     * Farnace
     * Gli equivoci del sembiante
  * Francesco Gasparini – Amor della patria
  * Antonio Quintavalle – Il trionfo d'amore
  * Domenico Scarlatti – Il Giustino
  
  ## Musical theater
  
  * William Corbett – As You Find It
  
  ## Births
  
  * 20 January – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer and violinist (died 1741)
  * 29 January – Carlmann Kolb, priest, organist and composer (died 1765)
  * date unknown
     * Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (died 1777)
     * 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)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March 31 – Johann Christoph Bach, organist and composer (born 1642)
  * September 14 – Gilles Jullien, composer and organist (born 1639)
  * October 3 – Alessandro Melani, composer (b. 1639
  * November 30 – Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer (born 1672)
  * probable – Jacek Różycki, composer (born c.1635)
  