1705 in music

The year 1705 in music involved some significant events.

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 (formerly attributed to JS Bach, BWV 723)
 * 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 (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)
 * 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
The following operas were composed:
 * 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 (or Die römische Unruhe, oder Die edelmühtige 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 (died 1782)
 * February 20 – Nicolas Chédeville, composer, musette player and maker (died 1782)
 * September 19 – Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin, French harpsichordist (died 1778)
 * 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 (died 1789)
 * Nicola Sabatino, composer (died 1796)
 * probable – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, composer and harpsichordist (died 1755)

Deaths

 * February – Pierre Beauchamp, dancer, choreographer and composer (born 1631)
 * February 5 – Jean Gilles, composer (born 1668)
 * June 13 – Nicholas Staggins, composer, Master of the King's Musick
 * April 17 – Johann Paul von Westhoff, violinist and composer (born 1656)
 * December 1 – Jeremiah Clarke, composer (born c. 1674)
 * probable – Giovanni Battista Rogeri, luthier (born c. 1650)