Events in Music
- Jan 14 Raymond Hubbell, Sam Shubert & Robert Smith's musical "Fontana" opens at the Lyric Theatre, NYC; runs 298 for performances
- Jan 25 Arnold Schoenberg's "Pelleas und Melissande" premieres at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria
- Mar 13 Mata Hari first performs her dance act at the Guimet Museum, Paris
- Oct 1 František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to write his Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905.
- Oct 15 Claude Debussy's symphonic sketch "La Mer" premieres in Paris
- Dec 9 Richard Strauss' opera "Salome" premieres in Dresden
- Dec 25 V Herbert/H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste" premieres in NYC
Tommy DorseyMusicians Who Died in 1905
- Jan 10 Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
- Jan 20 Stanislaw Pilinski, French pianist and composer, dies at 65
- Feb 10 Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer, dies at 78
- Mar 15 Luigi Manzotti, Italian mine dancer and ballet choreographer, dies at 70
- Mar 19 Makar Ekmalyan, Armenian composer (Patarag - Divine Liturgy of Armenia), dies at 49
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