1673 in music

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.

Publications

• Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Musico prattico, Op.8
• Erasmus Gruber – Synopsis musica
• Matthew Locke – The Present Practice of Musick

Classical music

• Giovanni-Battista Agneletti – Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Battalia à 10
• Cristofaro Caresana – La Tarentella
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• * Ouverture et intermèdes, H.494
• * Symphonie devant Regina, H.509
• * Prélude, H.510
• * Prélude, H.512
• Agostino Guerrieri – 13 Sonatas, Op. 1
• Sebastien Knüpfer – Erforsche mich, Gott
• Giovanni Legrenzi
• *Violin Duo and continuo
• *La Cetra, a collection of sonatas
• Matthew Locke – Melothesia
• Jean-Baptiste Lully – La pastorale comique, LWV 33

[Opera]

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

Births

• January 30 – Marc-Antoine Legrand, lyricist
• February 1 – Alessandro Marcello, composer
• April 16 – Francesco Feroci, composer
• June 18 – Antonio de Literes, composer of zarzuelas
• July 25 – Santiago de Murcia, guitarist and composer
• August 28 – Conrad Michael Schneider, composer
• September 29 – Jacques Hotteterre, composer
• October 26 – Dimitrie Cantemir, composer, musicologist and polymath
• date unknown – Johannes Kelpius, ''the first Pennsylvanian composer''

Deaths

• February 2 – Kaspar Förster, composer and musician
• February 17 – Molière, opera librettist
• date unknown – Lemme Rossi, music theorist