1705 in music

1705 in music

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)


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