1705 in music

Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach travels to 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 Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi.
• The earliest fandango melody is recorded in the anonymous Libro de diferentes cifras de guitarra.

Classical music

• Johann Michael Bach – Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• *Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 533
• *Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 535a
• *Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 549
• *Prelude in G major, BWV 568
• *Prelude in A minor, BWV 569
• *Fantasia in C major, BWV 570
• *Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 739
• *Suite in A minor, BWV 818
• *Overture in F major, BWV 820
• *Suite in G minor, BWV 822
• *Sonata in A minor, BWV 965
• *Sonata in C major, BWV 966
• *Sonata in A minor, BWV 967
• Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns – St Mark Passion
• Sébastien de Brossard – Samson trahi par Dalila
• Dietrich Buxtehude – Prelude in G minor, BuxWV 150
• Antonio Caldara – Kyrie in A minor
• François Campion – Nouvelles découvertes Sur la Guitarre
• François Couperin
• *Mottets à voix seule, deux et trois parties et symphonies
• *7 Versets du motet composé de l'ordre du roy, 1705
• Michel Richard Delalande – Mottets de Monsieur de La Lande
• Jean Gilles – Requiem
• George Frideric Handel
• *Chaconne in G major, HWV 442
• *Air in A major, HWV 468
• *Gavotte in G major, HWV 491
• Johann Kuhnau – Gott sei mir gnädig
• Gaspard Le Roux – Pièces de clavessin
• Antonio Lotti – Duetti, terzetti, e madrigali a più voci
• Johann Pachelbel – Toccata in C major, P.455-6
• Bernardo Pascoli – Moteti sagri a voce sola..., Op. 1
• John Christopher Pepusch – 6 Record Sonatas, Op.1
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Solitudini amene, bersaglio d'empia sorte, H.664
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Ich hebe meine Augen auf zu den Bergen, TWV 7:17
• Antonio Vivaldi – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op.1

Opera

• Tomaso Albinoni – L'Eraclea
• Antonio Caldara – L'Arminia
• Thomas Clayton, Nicola Haym, & Charles Dieupart – Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus, produced at the Drury Lane Theatre in London
• Francesco Gasparini
• *Ambleto
• *Antioco
• George Frideric Handel – Almira, premièred in Hamburg
• Reinhard Keiser – Octavia
• Alessandro Scarlatti
• *Alle Troiane antenne, H.30
• *''Il Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme''

Theoretical Writings

• Jacques Boyvin – Traité abrégé de l’Accompagnement
• Johann Peter Sperling – ''Principia Musicæ''

Births

• :De: Johann Elias Bach January 24 – Farinelli, celebrated castrato
• February 20 – Nicolas Chédeville, composer, musette player and maker
• September 19 - Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin, French harpsichordist
• September 28 – Johann Peter Kellner, organist and composer
• November 5 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer and violinist
• November 29 – Michael Christian Festing, violinist and composer
• date unknown
• *Louis Archimbaud, organist and composer
• *Nicola Sabatino, composer
• probable – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, composer and harpsichordist

Deaths

• February – Pierre Beauchamp, dancer, choreographer and composer
• February 5 – Jean Gilles, composer
• June 13 – Nicholas Staggins, composer, Master of the King's Musick
• April 17 – Johann Paul von Westhoff, violinist and composer
• December 1 – Jeremiah Clarke, composer
• probable – Giovanni Battista Rogeri, luthier