1707 in music

Events

• George Frideric Handel meets Domenico Scarlatti in Venice.
• Antonio Caldara leaves his post in Mantua to become maestro di cappella to Prince Ruspoli in Rome.
• Domenico Zipoli becomes a pupil of organist Giovani Maria Casini in Florence.
• October 17 – Johann Sebastian Bach marries his second cousin, Maria Barbara Bach, at Dornheim.
• December 1 – English composer and organist Jeremiah Clarke commits suicide in London. He is succeeded as Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal by William Croft.

  Published classical music

• Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Concerti a cinque, Op. 5
• Francesco Antonio Bonporti – 10 Violin Sonatas, Op. 7
• Michel de La Barre – Pièces en trio, Livre 3
• Pierre Gautier – Symphonies divisées par suites de tons
• Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
• * Pièces de clavecin, Livre 2
• * 6 Violin Sonatas
• Michele Mascitti – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 3
• Nicolas Siret – Pièces de Clavecin, Livre 1

  Published popular music

• Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Isaac Watts

  Classical music

• Johann Bernhard Bach
• *Helft mir Gottes Güte greifen
• *Jesus nichts als Jesus
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• *Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4
• *Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106
• *Fugue in C major, BWV Anh.107
• *Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131
• *Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196
• *Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 551
• *Toccata and Fugue in C major, BWV 566a
• *Fugue in G minor, BWV 578
• *Capriccio in E major, BWV 993
• Michel Richard Delalande – Cantate Domino canticum novum, S. 72
• Henri Desmarets – Confitebor tibi Domine
• Giovanni Battista Draghi – 6 Harpsichord Suites
• George Frideric Handel
• * The Alchemist, HWV 43
• * Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità, HWV 46
• * Ah, che pur troppo è vero, HWV 77
• * Diana cacciatrice, HWV 79
• * Allor ch'io dissi addio, HWV 80
• * Alpestre monte, HWV 81
• * Aure soavi e liete, HWV 84
• * Care selve, aure grate, HWV 88
• * Clori, degli occhi miei, HWV 91a
• * Clori, mia bella Clori, HWV 92
• * Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, HWV 96
• * Il delirio amoroso, HWV 99
• * Armida abbandonata, HWV 105
• * Agrippina condotta a morire, HWV 110
• * Figli del mesto cor, HWV 112
• * Fra pensieri quel pensiero, HWV 115
• * Ne' tuoi lumi, o bella Clori, HWV 133
• * No se emenderá jamás, HWV 140
• * Non sospirar, non piangere, HWV 141
• * Notte placida e cheta, HWV 142
• * O lucenti, o sereni occhi, HWV 144
• * Occhi miei che faceste?, HWV 146
• * Poichè giuraro amore, HWV 148
• * Qualor l'egre pupille, HWV 152
• * Sarei troppo felice, HWV 157
• * La bianca rosa, HWV 160a
• * Spande ancor a mio dispetto, HWV 165
• * Stanco di più soffrire, HWV 167a
• * Tra le fiamme, HWV 170
• * Un' alma innamorata, HWV 173
• * Un sospir a chi si muore, HWV 174
• * Vedendo amor, HWV 175
• * Venne voglia ad amore, HWV 176
• * Giù nei Tartari Regni, HWV 187
• * Ah! che troppo ineguali, HWV 230
• * Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
• * Laudate pueri Dominum, HWV 237
• * Nisi Dominus, HWV 238
• * Salve Regina, HWV 241
• * Sinfonia in B-flat major, HWV 339
• * Oboe Sonata in B-flat major, HWV 357
• * Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 391
• * Trio Sonata in F major, HWV 405
• * Keyboard Sonata in G minor, HWV 580
• Reinhard Keiser – Dialogus von der Geburt Christi
• Michel de La Barre – Suite in E minor, IMB 17
• Jean-Baptiste de Lully – Concert donné au soupé du roy
• Johann Pachelbel – Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, P. 233
• James Paisible – The Union. Mr. Isaac's new dance...
• Alessandro Scarlatti
• *Ahi che sarà di me, H. 19
• *Cain, overo Il primo omicidio
• *Il giardino di rose
• Giuseppe Torelli – Sinfonia in D major, G.29

  Opera

• Thomas Clayton – Rosamond, book by Joseph Addison, produced in London
• Nicola Fago – Radamisto
• Handel – Rodrigo
• Johann Christoph Pepusch – Thomyris, Queen of Scythia
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Mitridate Eupatore
• Agostino Steffani – Arminio

  Births

• April 10 – Michel Corrette, organist and composer
• May 2 – Jean-Baptiste Barrière, cellist and composer
• December 18 – Charles Wesley, hymn-writer
• date unknown
• *Matthew Dubourg, violinist, conductor and composer
• *Zanetta Farussi, opera singer and composer
• *Edward Harwood, composer of hymns, anthems and songs
• *Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer and harpsichordist
• *Herman Friedrich Voltmar, composer

  Deaths

• February 9 – Giuseppe Aldrovandini, composer
• March 30 – Henry Hall, composer of church music
• April 20 – Johann Christoph Denner, inventor of the clarinet
• May 9 – Dieterich Buxtehude, composer
• June – Gaspard Le Roux, French harpsichordist
• August 20 – Nicolas Gigault, organist and composer
• September 5 – Johann Daniel Georg Speer, composer
• December 1 – Jeremiah Clarke, composer
• date unknown – Julie d'Aubigny, opera singer
• probable – Henry Playford, music publisher