1705 in music
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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.[1]
- Alessandro Scarlatti notes that he has written 88 operas in the past 23 years.[2]
- William Croft marries Mary George.[3]
- Jean-Féry Rebel joins Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi.[4]
- The earliest fandango melody is recorded in the anonymous Libro de diferentes cifras de guitarra.[5]
Classical music
- Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns – St Mark Passion (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)
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
Births
- 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)
References
- ^ Clare, Horatio (18 December 2017). "With Bach to the Baltic: a hike through German history". the Guardian. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "Scarlatti: La Folia & other works". Hyperion Records. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "William Croft". www.westminster-abbey.org. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "Rebel – Francoeur". www.stradivaria.org (in French). Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ Duckett, George A. (2018). Etymology: Questions and Answers. George A Duckett. p. 1952.