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