1673 in music

The year 1673 in music involved some significant events.

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

 * Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Battalia à 10 chamber music
 * Giovanni-Battista Agneletti – Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto
 * Heinrich 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 (May 14)
 * Giovanni Legrenzi
 * Violin Duo and continuo
 * La Cetra (Op. 10), 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 (died 1728)
 * February 1 – Alessandro Marcello, composer (d. 1747)
 * April 16 – Francesco Feroci, composer (d. 1750)
 * June 18 – Antonio de Literes, composer of zarzuelas (died 1747)
 * July 25 – Santiago de Murcia, guitarist and composer (died 1739)
 * August 28 – Conrad Michael Schneider, composer (died 1752)
 * September 29 – Jacques Hotteterre, composer (d. 1763)
 * October 26 – Dimitrie Cantemir, composer, musicologist and polymath (d. 1723)
 * date unknown – Johannes Kelpius, the first Pennsylvanian composer (died 1708)

Deaths

 * February 2 – Kaspar Förster, composer and musician (born by 1616)
 * February 17 – Molière, opera librettist (born 1622)
 * date unknown – Lemme Rossi, music theorist