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.

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)

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