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The year 1703 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach gets a summer job as a violinist at the court of Weimar.
• Antonio Vivaldi starts composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice.
• Alessandro Scarlatti becomes Maestro di Cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
• George Frideric Handel gives up his legal studies at the University of Halle for a music course at Hamburg.
• Jakob Greber makes his London debut as a theatre composer.
• Nicolas Bernier publishes his first cantatas, the earliest in the French language.

Classical music

• Gaspard Corrette - Organ mass
• François Couperin - Quatre versets d'un motet (sacred music)

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

• date unknown - John Frederick Lampe, musician (died 1751)

Deaths

• March 31 - Johann Christoph Bach, organist and composer (born 1642)
• November 30 - Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer (born 1672)