Editing 1905 in music (section)

==Events==
*[[January 6]] – Première of [[Leoš Janáček]]'s piano cycle ''[[On an Overgrown Path]]'' ''(Po zarostlém chodníčku)'' at the "Besední dům" Hall in [[Brno]].
*[[January 8]] - [[Florent Schmitt]]'s symphonic poem ''Le Palais hante'' [The Haunted Palace], based on a story by [[Edgar Allan Poe]], is premièred at the [[Orchestre Lamoureux]] in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jerry Edwin Rife|title=A Study of the Early Twentieth-century Compositional Style of Florent Schmitt Based on an Examination of Psaume XLVII and La Tragédie de Salomé|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1X2xdEfkCAC|year=1986|publisher=Michigan State University. School of Music|page=17}}</ref>
*[[January 26]] – [[Arnold Schoenberg]]'s symphonic poem ''[[Pelleas und Melisande]]'' is premièred in [[Vienna]].
*[[January 29]] – [[Gustav Mahler]]'s ''[[Kindertotenlieder]]'' is premiered in [[Vienna]].
*[[February 2]] - The Moscov paper ''Nashi Dni'' publishes an open letter signed by 29 prominent Moscov musicians, including [[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Rachmaninoff]], [[Feodor Chaliapin|Chaliapin]], [[Reinhold Glière|Gliere]], calling for basic reforms in Russia.<ref>{{cite book|author=Boris Schwarz|title=Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia, 1917-1970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2A46AAAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Barrie and Jenkins|isbn=978-0-214-65264-6|page=3}}</ref>
*[[February 5]] - [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]'s ''[[Cello Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)|Concerto No.2 in D Minor]]'' for Cello and Orchestra premieres in Paris
*[[February 10]] - German conductor [[Felix Weingartner]] conducts for the first time in America with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.<ref>{{cite book|author=David Ewen|title=Musicians Since 1900: Performers in Concert and Opera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VV0YAAAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|isbn=978-0-8242-0565-2|page=944}}</ref>
*[[February 14]] - [[Jules Massenet]]'s opera ''[[Cherubin]]'' premiers in Monte Carlo.
*[[February 25]] - ''Concerto for Dubble Bass and Orchestra'' by [[Serge Koussevitzky]] is premièred in Moscow, with the composer as soloist.
*[[February 27]] - The ballet ''My Lady Nicotine'', with music by [[George W. Byng]], is produced at the [[Alhambra Theatre]], London.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ivor Guest|title=Ballet in Leicester Square: The Alhambra and the Empire, 1860-1915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdiBAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Dance Books|isbn=978-1-85273-034-5|page=151}}</ref>
*[[March 4]] - ''[[Violin Concerto (Glazunov)|Concerto in A minor for Violin and Orchestra]]'', Op.82, by [[Alexander Glazunov]], receives its world première in Saint Petersburg, the composer conducting.
*[[March 8]] - [[Edward Elgar]]'s ''[[Introduction and Allegro (Elgar)|Introduction and Allegro for string quartet and string orchestra]]'' and ''[[Pomp and Circumstance Marches|Pomp and Circumstance No.3]]'' are premièred as the composer conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
*[[March 12]] - [[Ottorino Respighi]]'s first opera ''[[Re Enzo (opera)|Re Enzo]]'' receives its initial performance in Bologna.
*[[March 16]] - [[Pietro Mascagni]]'s lyric drama ''[[Amica (opera)|Amica]]'' is premièred at the Theatre du Casino, Monte Carlo.
*[[March 19]] - [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] is dismissed from the faculty of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory for supporting students who went on strike demanding reforms.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov|title=My Musical Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-GokAQAAMAAJ|year=1923|publisher=A. A. Knopf|page=371}}</ref>
*[[March 27]] - A performance of [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s ''[[Kashchey the Deathless]]'' becomes the scene of heated public demonstration as a result of recent events at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
*[[April 14]] - [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]]'s three-act comic opera ''Die Heirat wider Willen'' receives its initial performance at the Royal Opera in Berlin.
*[[April 15]] - The Consertvatory of Geneva gives the first public demonstration os [[Émile Jaques-Dalcroze]]'s ''[[Dalcroze eurhythmics|eurythmics]]''.
*[[April 30]] - [[Louis Coerne]] is awarded a Ph.D.for his dissertation ''The Evolution of Modern Orchestration''.
*[[May 25]] - [[Emile Jaques-Dalcroze]]'s opera ''Onkel Dazumal'' is produced in Cologne
*[[May 29]] - [[Alexander Scriabin]]'s [[Symphony No. 3 (Scriabin)|Symphony No.3 in C Major]], ''The Divine Poem'', Op.43, is performed for the first time by [[Arthur Nikisch]] in Paris.
*[[June 26]] - [[Gabriel Faure]] succeeds [[Theodore Dubois]] as director of the Paris Conservatoire
*September – The lyrics of [[Rabindranath Tagore]]'s song "[[Amar Shonar Bangla]]" are published in two magazines. They are later adopted as the national anthem of Bangladesh.
*[[September 8]] - Double-bass virtuoso [[Serge Koussevitzky]] maries Natalie Ushkov, the daughter of a wealthy tea merchant 
*[[September 29]] - [[George Whitefield Chadwick]]'s symphonic poem ''Cleopatra'' premieres at the [[Worcester Music Festival, Massachusetts|Worcester Music Festival]] in Massachusetts 
*October – The [[Opéra national de Lorraine|opera house at Nancy]], France, is destroyed by fire.
*[[October 4]] - [[Enrico Caruso]], now in Vienna, denies claims of music critics in Budapest that he "had to have morphine injected" when he sang in Budapest
*[[October 8]] - [[Max Reger]]'s ''Sinfonietta in A Major'', Op.90 is premiered by [[Felix Mottl]] in Essen
*[[October 11]] – The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of the [[Juilliard School]], opens in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.juilliard.edu/school/brief-history|title=A Brief History|publisher=Juilliard School|accessdate=2019-05-10}}</ref>
*[[October 15]] – [[Claude Debussy]]'s ''[[La Mer (Debussy)|La Mer]]'' is premiered in [[Paris]] as [[Camille Chevillard]] conducts the [[Lamoureux Orchestra]].
*[[October 19]] - A revised final version of [[Jean Sibelius]]' [[Violin Concerto (Sibelius)|Violin concerto in D Minor]], Op.47, premieres in Berlin with [[Carl Halir]] as soloist.
*[[October 21]]
** [[Henry J. Wood|Henry Wood]] first conducts a performance of his ''[[Fantasia on British Sea Songs]]'' at a [[Trafalgar Day]] concert in London.
** [[Turandot Suite]], by Ferruccio Busoni, receives its first performance in Berlin.
*[[October 29]] - The first concert of the New Symphony Orchestra of London occurs at the [[Coronet Theatre, London|Coronet Theater]], London
*[[Otto Klemperer]] meets [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]] for the first time, while conducting one of his works.
*[[December 1]] - The first opera by an American composer ever to be staged in Europe is produced in Bremen. It is the three-act opera ''Zenobia'', by [[Louis Adolphe Coerne]].
*[[December 5]] - [[Alexander Glazunov]] is elected director of the [[Saint Petersburg Conservatory]]
*[[December 9]] - [[Richard Strauss]]'s one-act musical drama ''[[Salome (opera)|Salome]]'' receives its initial performance at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden.
*[[December 26]] - [[Charles-Marie Widor]]'s four-act opera ''Les Pecheurs de Saint-Jean'' receives its first performance at the Opera-Comique in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|title=Organists' Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWsIAQAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Incorporated Association of Organists|page=21}}</ref>
*[[December 28]] - ''[[Die lustige Witwe]]'' by [[Franz Lehar]], receives its first performance in Vienna.<ref>{{cite book|author=James Harris Olander|title=The Meilhac-Halévy Libretti for Offenbach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xOJRAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison|page=287}}</ref>