1707 in music

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. 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")

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)
 * 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)