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 "Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi".
The earliest fandango melody is recorded in the anonymous Libro de diferentes cifras de guitarra.

Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns – St Mark Passion (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)

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

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 (died 1789)
- Nicola Sabatino, composer (died 1796)
probable – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, composer and harpsichordist (died 1755)

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