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The year 1707 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• George Frideric Handel meets Domenico Scarlatti in Venice.
• Johann Sebastian Bach marries his cousin, Maria Barbara.
• Antonio Caldara leaves his post in Mantua to become maestro di cappella to Prince Ruspoli in Rome.
• William Croft becomes "Master of the Children" at the Chapel Royal, in succession to Clarke.
• Domenico Zipoli becomes a pupil of organist Giovani Maria Casini in Florence.

Published popular music

• Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Isaac Watts (including "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross")

Classical music

• Tomaso Albinoni - Op. 5, a collection of concerti
• Johann Sebastian Bach

• Christ lag in Todesbanden (cantata)
• Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (cantata)

• Alessandro Scarlatti - Cain, overo Il primo omicidio (oratorio)

Opera

The following operas were composed:

• 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

• December 18 - Charles Wesley, hymn-writer (died 1788)
• date unknown - Michel Corrette, organist and composer (died 1795)

Deaths

• 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 - Johann Daniel Georg Speer, composer (born 1636) [1]
• 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)