1705 in music
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The year 1705 in music involved some significant events.
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[edit] 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 the "24 violons du Roy".
[edit] Classical music
- Arcangelo Corelli – Concerto Grosso No. 8 ("Christmas Concerto")
- Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns - St Mark Passion (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)
[edit] Opera
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
[edit] Births
- 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 (d. 1789)
- Nicola Sabatino, composer (d. 1796)
- probable – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, composer and harpsichordist (died 1755)
[edit] Deaths
- February – Pierre Beauchamp, dancer, choreographer and composer (b. 1631)
- February 5 – Jean Gilles, composer (b. 1668)
- April 17 – Johann Paul von Westhoff, violinist and composer (b. 1656)
- December 1 – Jeremiah Clarke, composer (born c. 1674)
- date unknown – Nicholas Staggins, composer, Master of the King's Musick
- probable – Giovanni Battista Rogeri, luthier (b. c. 1650)
