# 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)