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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, 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.&nbsp;5
  • Francesco Antonio Bonporti – 10 Violin Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;3
  • Nicolas Siret – Pièces de Clavecin, Livre 1
  • Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Isaac Watts (including "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross")

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

Opera

  • Antonia Bembo – Ercole amante, book by Francesco Buti
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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