The year 1707 in music involved some significant events.

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,^[1] 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 (including "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross")^[2]

Classical music

• Johann Bernhard Bach
  • Helft mir Gottes Güte greifen
  • Jesus nichts als Jesus
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 (chorale cantata)
  • Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106
  • Fugue (on the theme 'B-A-C-H') 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 (oratorio)
  • 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 (died 1795)^[3]
• May 2 – Jean-Baptiste Barrière, cellist and composer (died 1747)
• December 18 – Charles Wesley, hymn-writer (died 1788)
• date unknown
  • Matthew Dubourg, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1767)
  • Zanetta Farussi, opera singer and composer (died 1776)
  • Edward Harwood (of Darwen), composer of hymns, anthems and songs (died 1787)
  • Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer and harpsichordist (died 1791)
  • Herman Friedrich Voltmar, composer (died 1782)

Deaths

• February 9 – Giuseppe Aldrovandini, composer (born 1665)
• March 30 – Henry Hall, composer of church music (born c. 1656)
• April 20 – Johann Christoph Denner, inventor of the clarinet (born 1655)
• May 9 – Dieterich Buxtehude, composer (born 1637)
• June – Gaspard Le Roux, French harpsichordist (born c.1660)
• August 20 – Nicolas Gigault, organist and composer (born 1627)
• September 5 – Daniel Speer, composer (born 1636)^[4]
• December 1 – Jeremiah Clarke, composer (born c.1674)
• date unknown – Julie d'Aubigny ("La Maupin"), opera singer (born 1670)
• probable – Henry Playford, music publisher (born 1657)

References