1673 in music

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

Published popular music

Classical music

• Giovanni Legrenzi
  • Violin Duo and continuo
  • La Cetra (Op. 10), a collection of sonatas

Opera

• Wolfgang Carl Briegel – Das verliebte Gespenst
• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Cadmus et Hermione
• Antonio Sartorio – Orfeo
• Pietro Andrea Ziani – Marcello in Siracuse

Births

• June 18 – Antonio de Literes, composer of zarzuelas (d. 1747)
• October 26 – Dimitrie Cantemir, composer, musicologist and polymath (d. 1723)
• date unknown – Johannes Kelpius, the first Pennsylvanian composer (died 1708)

Deaths

• date unknown – Lemme Rossi, music theorist