1707 in music
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Events
- George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
meets Domenico ScarlattiDomenico ScarlattiGiuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
in VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
. - Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
marries his cousin, Maria Barbara. - Antonio CaldaraAntonio CaldaraAntonio Caldara was an Italian Baroque composer.Caldara was born in Venice , the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni Legrenzi...
leaves his post in Mantua to become maestro di cappella to Prince Ruspoli in Rome. - William CroftWilliam CroftWilliam Croft was an English composer and organist.Croft was born at the Manor House, Nether Ettington, Warwickshire. He was educated at the Chapel Royal, under the instruction of John Blow, and remained there until 1698. Two years after this departure, he became organist of St. Anne's Church, Soho...
becomes "Master of the Children" at the Chapel Royal, in succession to Clarke. - Domenico ZipoliDomenico ZipoliDomenico Zipoli was an Italian Baroque composer. He became a Jesuit in order to work in the Reductions of Paraguay where his musical expertise contributed to develop the natural musical talents of the Guaranis...
becomes a pupil of organist Giovani Maria Casini in Florence.
Published popular music
- Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Isaac WattsIsaac WattsIsaac Watts was an English hymnwriter, theologian and logician. A prolific and popular hymnwriter, he was recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", credited with some 750 hymns...
(including "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross")
Classical music
- Tomaso AlbinoniTomaso AlbinoniTomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.-Biography:Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a...
– Op. 5, a collection of concerti - Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
- Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 (cantata)
- Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 (cantata)
- Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
– Cain, overo Il primo omicidio (oratorio)
Opera
- Thomas Clayton – Rosamond, book by Joseph AddisonJoseph AddisonJoseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison...
, produced in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... - Nicola FagoNicola FagoNicola Fago was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher.-Biography:Born in Taranto, he studied music at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples between 1693 and 1695. Between 1704 and 1708 he worked at the Conservatorio Sant´Onofrio...
– Radamisto - HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
– RodrigoRodrigo (opera)Rodrigo is an opera in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel. Its original title was Vincer se stesso è la maggior vittoria . The opera is based on the historical figure of Rodrigo, the last Visigothic king of Hispania... - Johann Christoph PepuschJohann Christoph PepuschJohann Christoph Pepusch , also known as John Christopher Pepusch and Dr Pepusch, was a German-born composer who spent most of his working life in England....
– Thomyris, Queen of Scythia - Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
– Mitridate Eupatore - Agostino SteffaniAgostino SteffaniAgostino Steffani was an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer.-Biography:Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto. At a very early age he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice...
– Arminio
Births
- April 10 – Michel CorretteMichel CorretteMichel Corrette was a French organist, composer and author of musical method books.-Life:Corrette was born in Rouen, Normandy. His father, Gaspard Corrette, was an organist and composer. Corrette served as organist at the Jesuit College in Paris from about 1737 to 1780. It is also known that he...
, organist and composer (died 1795) - May 2 – Jean-Baptiste BarrièreJean-Baptiste BarrièreJean-Baptiste Barrière was a French cellist and composer. He was born in Bordeaux and died in Paris, at 40 years of age.-Musical career:Barrière first studied the viol, and published a set of viol sonatas...
, cellist and composer (died 1747) - December 18 – Charles WesleyCharles WesleyCharles Wesley was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley , and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel Sebastian Wesley...
, hymn-writer (died 1788) - date unknown
- Matthew DubourgMatthew DubourgMatthew Dubourg was an Irish violinist, conductor, and composer. Dubourg also enjoys the distinction of having led the orchestra at the premiere of Georg Friedrich Handel's great oratorio Messiah...
, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1767) - Zanetta FarussiZanetta FarussiZanetta Farussi, or Maria Giovanna Farussi , was an Italian actress, opera singer and composer. She was the mother of Giacomo Casanova....
, opera singer and composer (died 1776) - Edward Harwood (of Darwen)Edward Harwood (of Darwen)Edward Harwood was an English composer of hymns, anthems and songs. His setting of Alexander Pope's The Dying Christian was enormously popular at one time and was widely performed at funerals....
, composer of hymns, anthems and songs (died 1787) - Pietro Domenico ParadisiPietro Domenico ParadisiPietro Domenico Paradisi , was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and harpsichord teacher, most prominently known for a composition popularly entitled "Toccata in A"....
, composer and harpsichordist (died 1791) - Herman Friedrich VoltmarHerman Friedrich VoltmarHerman Friedrich Voltmar was a German-born Danish composer.The eldest son of the oboist Johan Voltmar, the family moved to Denmark around 1711. His 3 brothers Johan Foltmar, Christian Ulrik Foltmar and Christoffer Foltmar were also well known.At a young age was employed by the Crown prince and...
, composer (died 1782)
- Matthew Dubourg
Deaths
- March 30 – Henry HallHenry Hall (poet)Henry Hall was a 17th century English poet and also a composer of Church music.Hall, a contemporary of Henry Purcell, received his musical education under Pelham Humfrey and Dr John Blow and as one of the boys of the Chapel Royal...
, composer of church music (born c. 1656) - April 20 – Johann Christoph DennerJohann Christoph DennerJohann Christoph Denner , was a famous woodwind instrument maker of the Baroque era, to whom the invention of the clarinet is attributed....
, inventor of the clarinet (born 1655) - May 9 – Dieterich BuxtehudeDieterich BuxtehudeDieterich Buxtehude was a German-Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and in church services...
, composer (born 1637) - June – Gaspard Le RouxGaspard Le RouxGaspard Le Roux was a French harpsichordist active in Paris at the beginning of the 18th century. Little is known of his life; only by one quotation in a list of professors considered in Paris, and a single collection of suites for one and two harpsichords which appeared in 1705: it is one of the...
, French harpsichordist (born c.1660) - August 20 – Nicolas GigaultNicolas GigaultNicolas Gigault was a French Baroque organist and composer. Born into poverty, he quickly rose to fame and high reputation among fellow musicians. His surviving works include the earliest examples of noëls and a volume of works representative of the 1650–1675 style of the French organ...
, organist and composer (born 1627) - September 5 – Johann Daniel Georg SpeerDaniel SpeerGeorg Daniel Speer was a German composer and writer of the Baroque.Speer was born in Wroclaw, Poland.- Writing :...
, composer (born 1636) http://www.fsz.bme.hu/mtsz/mhk/csarnok/s/speer.htm - December 1 – Jeremiah ClarkeJeremiah ClarkeJeremiah Clarke was an English baroque composer and organist.Thought to have been born in London around 1674, Clarke was a pupil of John Blow at St Paul's Cathedral. He later became organist at the Chapel Royal...
, composer (born c.1674) - date unknown
- Giuseppe AldrovandiniGiuseppe AldrovandiniGiuseppe Antonio Vincenzo Aldrovandini was an Italian Baroque composer. He is credited with writing over twenty operas and oratorios, including the 1696 opera Dafni, as well as many other instrumental compositions and arias.-External links:...
, composer (born 1665) - Julie d'AubignyJulie d'AubignyJulie d'Aubigny , better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a 17th-century swordswoman and opera singer. Her tumultuous career and flamboyant life were the subject of gossip and colorful stories in her own time, and inspired romances and novels afterwards...
("La Maupin"), opera singer (born 1670)
- Giuseppe Aldrovandini
- probable – Henry PlayfordHenry PlayfordHenry Playford was an English music publisher, the younger son and only known surviving child of John Playford, with whom he entered business. He lived in Arundel Street in London and had a shop near Temple Church 1685–1695 then in Temple Change 1695–1704 and finally in Middle Temple Gate in 1706...
, music publisher (born 1657)