# 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)