Events
- Johann Sebastian Bach gets a job as a violinist and lackey at the lesser court in Weimar.
- Johann Sebastian Bach accepts post of Organist at the New Church in Arnstadt August 1703.
- 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.
- Jakob Greber makes his London debut as a theatre composer.
- Nicolas Bernier publishes his first cantatas, the earliest in the French language.
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