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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 &ndash; 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)

References