The year 1703 in music involved some significant events. 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. Classical music Henricus Albicastro – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op.5 Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto and Fugue in C minor, BWV 909 Denket doch, ihr Menschenkinder, BWV 1122 Wo Gott zum Haus nicht gibt sein Gunst, BWV 1123 Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 1124 O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 1125 Giovanni Bononcini – Proteo sul Reno Sébastien de Brossard Abraham ou le sacrifice d'Isaac Judith ou la mort d'Holopherne Antonio Caldara – La castità al cimento André Campra – Motets, Livre 3 Gaspard Corrette – Messe du 8e Ton pour l’Orgue François Couperin – Quatre versets d'un motet (sacred music) George Frideric Handel – Keyboard Sonata in C major, HWV 577 Christian Liebe – Machet die Tore weit Louis Marchand – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 2 James Paisible - Six sonatas of two parts for two flutes, Op. 1 Andrew Parcham – Recorder Sonata in G major Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Casimiro, re di Polonia Andreas Heinrich Schultze – 6 Recorder Sonatas Opera Antonio Caldara Farnace Gli equivoci del sembiante Francesco Gasparini – Amor della patria Antonio Quintavalle – Il trionfo d'amore Domenico Scarlatti – Il Giustino Musical theater William Corbett – As You Find It Births 20 January – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer and violinist (died 1741) 29 January – Carlmann Kolb, priest, organist and composer (died 1765) date unknown Jean-Marie Leclair the younger, composer (died 1777) John Frederick Lampe, musician (died 1751) John Travers, organist and composer (died 1758) Johann Gottlieb Graun, German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist (died 1771) Deaths March 31 – Johann Christoph Bach, organist and composer (born 1642) September 14 – Gilles Jullien, composer and organist (born 1639) October 3 – Alessandro Melani, composer (b. 1639 November 30 – Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer (born 1672)