1705 in music

The year 1705 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach sets off for Lübeck to hear Dieterich Buxtehude perform.
• Alessandro Scarlatti notes that he has written 88 operas in the past 23 years.
• William Croft marries Mary George.
• Jean-Féry Rebel joins the "24 violons du Roy".

Classical music

• Arcangelo Corelli – Concerto Grosso No. 8 ("Christmas Concerto")
• Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns - St Mark Passion (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)

Opera

The following operas were composed:

• Antonio Caldara – L'Arminia
• Thomas Clayton, Nicola Haym, & Charles Dieupart – Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus, produced at the Drury Lane Theatre in London
• Francesco Gasparini – Statira
• George Frideric Handel – Almira, premièred in Hamburg

Births

• January 24 – Farinelli, celebrated castrato (died 1782)
• February 20 – Nicolas Chédeville, composer, musette player and maker (died 1782)
• September 28 – Johann Peter Kellner, organist and composer (died 1772)
• November 5 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer and violinist (died 1770)
• November 29 – Michael Christian Festing, violinist and composer (died 1752)
• date unknown
  • Louis Archimbaud, organist and composer (d. 1789)
  • Nicola Sabatino, composer (d. 1796)
• probable – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, composer and harpsichordist (died 1755)

Deaths

• February – Pierre Beauchamp, dancer, choreographer and composer (b. 1631)
• February 5 – Jean Gilles, composer (b. 1668)
• April 17 – Johann Paul von Westhoff, violinist and composer (b. 1656)
• December 1 – Jeremiah Clarke, composer (born c. 1674)
• date unknown – Nicholas Staggins, composer, Master of the King's Musick
• probable – Giovanni Battista Rogeri, luthier (b. c. 1650)