1683 in music
The following events in the field of music occurred in the year 1683.
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, 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, 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
- January 14 – Gottfried Silbermann, German constructor of keyboard instruments
- April 17 – Johann David Heinichen, composer
- September 25 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer date unknown
- * Christoph Graupner, composer
- * Johann David Heinichen, composer and music theorist
- * Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist
Deaths
- September 6 – Johann Melchior Gletle, organist and composer
- December 15 – Izaak Walton, librettist date unknown
- * Solomon Eccles, composer
- * John Hingston, organist, violist and composer
- * Nathaniel Ingelo, writer and musician
- * Johann Sebastiani, composer
- * Jacob Stainer, luthier
- * Alessandro Poglietti, organist and composer