1706 in music

• Louis-Antoine Dornel ( Fr. Louis-Antoine Dornel ) succeeded Francois Dagencourt ( Fr. François d'Agincourt ) as an organist in the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine-en-la-Cité.
• Thomas Durfey ( English dub . Thomas d'Urfey ) published a collection of songs "Wit and fun, or tablets to clear of melancholy", vol. 4 ( English Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. 4 ).
• John Gostling published Gostling manuscripts , a collection of 64 hymns: 17 from Henry Purcell , 23 from John Blow , 4 each from Pelham Humfrey , William Turner ( William Turner ) and Jeremiah Clark , 3 each from Matthew Locke ( English Matthew Locke ) and Thomas Tadway , one from William Child ( English William Child ), Henry Aldrich ( English Henry Aldrich ) and some others.

• Jean-Adam Guilain (Freinsberg) ( French: Jean-Adam Guilain ( German: Freinsberg )) - Pièces d'orgue pour le Magnificat sur les huit tons différents de l'église.
• Jean-Philippe Rameau - “The first book of plays for harpsichord” ( French Premier Livre de Pieces de Clavecin ).

• Toussaint Bertin de la Doué ( French: Toussaint Bertin de la Doué ) - Cassandre .
• Francesco Mancini - “Alexander the Great in Sidon” ( Italian: Alessandro Il Grande in Sidone ).
• Alessandro Scarlatti -
  • Lucio Manlio l'imperioso ;
  • The Great Tamerlane ( Italian: Il gran Tamerlano ).

• April 6 - Louis de Cayusac ( French: Louis de Cahusac ), French librettist (died June 22, 1759 ).
• April 24 - Giovanni Battista Martini , better known as Padre Martini, Italian theorist and music historian , educator , composer , bandmaster , singer , violinist and harpsichord player (died October 4, 1784 ).
• October 18 - Baldassare Galuppi , nicknamed Buranello, a Venetian composer known for his comic buff opera (died January 3, 1785 ).
• November 7 - Carlo Chechere , Italian composer and musician (died February 15, 1761 ).
• December - William Hayes, composer and organist (died in 1777)

• March 3 - Johann Pachelbel , German composer and organist, one of the best masters of the South German organ music of the Baroque period (born September 1, 1653 ).
• June 30 - Jacques Boisin ( fr. Jacques Boyvin ), French Baroque organist and composer (born 1649 ).
• October 26 - Andreas Werkmeister , German music theorist, organist and composer, author of the doctrine of good temperaments (born November 30, 1645 ).
• December 2 - Johann Georg Ahle ( German: Johann Georg Ahle ), German organist and composer (born June 1651 ).

Unknown date - Flavio Carlo Lanciani ( Italian: Flavio Carlo Lanciani ), Italian opera composer (born 1667 ).