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