1703 in music

See also: 1702 in music, other events of 1703, 1704 in music, list of years in music.

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.

Classical music

• François Couperin - Versets (sacred music)

Opera

• Domenico Scarlatti - Il Giustino

Musical theater

• William Corbett - As You Find It

Births

• date unknown - John Frederick Lampe, musician

Deaths

• March 31 - Johann Christoph Bach , organist and composer
• November 30 - Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer