List of years in music (Table)
… 1695 • 1696 • 1697 • 1698 • 1699 • 1700 • 1701 •    1702 • 1703 • 1704 – 1705 – 1706 • 1707 • 1708 •    1709 • 1710 • 1711 • 1712 • 1713 • 1714 • 1715 …
Related time period or subjects
… 1702 • 1703 • 1704 – 1705 – 1706 • 1707 • 1708 … … 1670s • 1680s • 1690s – 1700s – 1710s • 1720s • 1730s … … 17th century – 18th century – 19th century …
Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Science more

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 the "24 violons du Roy".

Classical music

• Arcangelo Corelli - Concerto Grosso No. 8 ("Christmas Concerto")

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)

Deaths

• date unknown - Nicholas Staggins, composer, ex-Master of the King's Musick
• December 1 - Jeremiah Clarke, composer (born c.1674)