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

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

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
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 (of Darwen), 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 – Daniel Speer, composer
December 1 – Jeremiah Clarke, composer
date unknown – Julie d'Aubigny, opera singer
probable – Henry Playford, music publisher