1605 in music

The year 1605 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• none listed

Publications

• William Byrd – Gradualia, book one
• Claudio Monteverdi – Italian: Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverdi Maestro della Musica del Serenissimo Sig.r Duca di Mantoa, col basso continuo per il Clavicembano, Chittarone, od altro simile istromento; fatto particolarmente per li sei ultimi, per li altri a beneplacito (fifth book of madrigals a5), published in Venice
• Michael Praetorius – Musae Sionae, Part 1
• Tomás Luis de Victoria – Officium Defunctorum, sex vocibus, in obitu et obsequiis sacrae imperatricis

Opera

• none listed

Births

• March – Antonio Bertali, Italian composer (died 1669)
• April – Giacomo Carissimi, composer (died 1674)
• April 19 – Orazio Benevoli, composer (died 1672)
• July 9 – Simon Dach, hymn-writer (died 1659)
• September 17 – Francesco Sacrati, early opera composer (died 1650)
• date unknown – Constantia Zierenberg, singer and musician (died 1653)
• probable
  • Johann Vierdanck, violinist, cornettist, and composer (died 1646)
  • Julius Johann Weiland, composer (died 1663)

Deaths

• February 19 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (born 1550)
• September 24 – Manuel Mendes, composer and music teacher (born c. 1547)
• date unknown – Pedro Bermúdez, composer and chapel-master (born 1558)