# 1713 in music

The year 1713 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Foundation of the Académie Royale de Danse by King Louis XIV of France.
* Daniel Purcell becomes organist at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, London.
* Francesco Bartolomeo Conti becomes court composer to the Habsburgs in Vienna.
* Giuseppe Tartini claims to have had a dream in which he allows the devil to play his violin.
* Antonio Stradivari makes the Gibson Stradivarius.

## Publications

* Giuseppe Matteo Alberti – 10 Violin Concertos, Op. 1
* Francesco Antonio Bonporti – Invenzioni a violino solo, Op. 10 (Italian edition). Venice-Trento: Giovanni Parone.
* Johann Heinrich Buttstett
** Musicalische Clavier-Kunst und Vorraths-Kammer
** Praeludium & Capricio
* Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Cantates françoises, Book 2 (inc. Léandre et Héro, Alphée et Aréthuse, Pirame et Tisbé and Pigmalion)
* François Couperin – Pièces de clavecin, book 1
* William Croft – Musicus Apparatus Academicus
* Louis-Antoine Dornel – Sonates en Trio, Op. 3
* Johann Mattheson – Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre (Hamburg: Mattheson)
* Jean-Féry Rebel – 12 Violin Sonatas
* Johann Christian Schieferdecker – XII. Musicalische Concerte, bestehend aus etlichen Ouverturen und Suiten

## Classical music

* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt, BWV 18
** Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21
** Ich lasse dich nicht BWV Anh. 159
** Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, BWV 208
** Organ Concerto in A minor, BWV 593
** Organ Concerto in C major, BWV 594
** Organ Concerto in C major, BWV 595 (based on Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar Op.1)
** Organ Concerto in D minor, BWV 596
** Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 601
** Puer natus in Bethlehem, BWV 603
** Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich, BWV 605
** Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 606
** In dulci jubilo, BWV 608
** Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 610
** Helft mir Gottes Güte preisen, BWV 613
** Prelude in C minor, BWV 921
** 16 Konzerte nach verschiedenen Meistern, BWV 972–987
** Trio Sonata in F major, BWV 1040
** Canon in A minor, BWV 1073
** Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn, BWV 1127
* Antonio Caldara – Oratorio di S. Stefano, primo re dell'Ungheria
* Christoph Graupner
** Wie bald hast du gelitten, GWV 1109/14
** Ich bin zwar Asch und Kot, GWV 1135/13
** Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan, GWV 1153/13
* George Frideric Handel
** Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74
** Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate
** As Pants the Hart, HWV 251a
* Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – La Musette, ou les Bergers de Suresne
* James Paisible – The Pastorall. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1713...
* Antonio Vivaldi – Beatus vir, RV 598

## Opera

* Francesco Feo – L'amor tirannico, ossia Zenobia
* George Frideric Handel
** Teseo, HWV 9, Premiered January 10 in London
** Silla, HWV 10
* Nicola Porpora – Basilio re d'oriente
* Antonio Vivaldi
** Orlando furioso
** Ottone in villa, RV 729

## Births

* January 7 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, opera director (1785)
* February 13 – Domènech Terradellas, composer (died 1751)
* March – Giammaria Ortes, Venetian composer and polymath (d. 1790)
* March 12 – Johann Adolph Hass, clavichord and harpsichord maker (died 1771)
* April 7 – Nicola Sala, composer and music theorist (died 1801)
* April 13 – Pierre Jélyotte, operatic tenor (died 1797)
* October 3 – Antoine Dauvergne, violinist and composer (died 1797)
* October 13 – Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer (died 1780)
* October 24 – Marie Fel, opera singer (died 1794)
* December 10 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, musician (died 1747)
* date unknown
** Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer (died 1767)
** Johannes Erasmus Iversen, composer (died 1755)
* probable – Robert Bremner, music publisher (died 1789)

## Deaths

* January 8 – Arcangelo Corelli, composer and violinist (born 1653)
* March 26 – Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha, composer
* March 30 – Govert Bidloo, opera librettist (born 1649)
* April 14 – Marcus Fronius, theologian, poet and musician (born 1659)
* October 28 – Paolo Lorenzani, composer (born 1640)
* October 31 – Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, patron of music (born 1663)
* date unknown – Ludovico Roncalli, composer for guitar (born 1654)
* probable – Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński, composer