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 (burial site of French monarchs), 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 (set of 12 trio sonatas, for two violins, bass, and basso continuo), 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 (died 1747)
 * January 14 – Gottfried Silbermann, German constructor of keyboard instruments (died 1753)
 * April 17 – Johann David Heinichen, composer (died 1729)
 * September 25 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (died 1764)
 * date unknown
 * Christoph Graupner, composer (died 1760)
 * Johann David Heinichen, composer and music theorist (died 1729)
 * Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist (died 1764)

Deaths

 * September 6 – Johann Melchior Gletle, organist and composer (born 1626)
 * December 15 – Izaak Walton, librettist (born c. 1594)
 * date unknown
 * Solomon Eccles, composer (born 1618)
 * John Hingston, organist, violist and composer
 * Nathaniel Ingelo, writer and musician (born c.1621)
 * Johann Sebastiani, composer (born 1622)
 * Jacob Stainer, luthier (born c.1617)
 * Alessandro Poglietti, organist and composer