Editing 1905 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 4]] – [[Theodore Thomas (conductor)|Theodore Thomas]], conductor (b. 1835)
*[[January 5]] – [[Belle Cole]], operatic contralto (b. 1845)<ref>{{cite book|author=E. Douglas Bomberger|title=Brainard's Biographies of American Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hx3fH94Z7HcC&pg=PA69|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30782-9|pages=69}}</ref>
*[[January 10]] – [[Kārlis Baumanis]], composer (b. 1835)
*[[January 22]] – [[Alfred Dörffel]], German pianist (born 1821)
*[[February 10]] – [[Ignacy Krzyżanowski]], composer (b. 1826)
*[[February 12]] – [[Edward Dannreuther]], pianist (b. 1844)<ref>{{cite book|author=Randel Don|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA196|year=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37299-3|pages=196}}</ref>
*[[March 15]] – [[Luigi Manzotti]], choreographer (b. 1835)
*[[April 12]] – [[Giuseppe Gariboldi]], flautist and composer (b. 1833)
*[[April 29]] – [[Ignacio Cervantes]], pianist and composer (b. 1847)
*[[May 5]] – [[Ernst Pauer]], pianist (b. 1826)
*[[May 13]] – [[Sam S. Shubert]], Broadway impresario (b. 1878) (rail crash)
*[[May 14]] – [[Jessie Bartlett Davis]], operatic contralto (b. 1859)
*[[May 15]] – [[Andrey Schulz-Evler]], composer and arranger (b. 1852)
*[[May 31]] – [[Franz Strauss]], musician and composer, father of [[Richard Strauss]] (b. 1822)
*[[July 8]] – [[Walter Kittredge]], self-taught musician and composer (b. 1834)<ref>{{cite book|author=George Calvin Carter|title=Walter Kittredge, Minstrel of the Merrimack|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zo-fAAAAMAAJ|year=1953|publisher=George Calvin Carter|page=123}}</ref>
*[[August 25]] – [[:de:Felix vom Rath|Felix vom Rath]], composer (born 1866)
*[[August 28]] – [[Yannis Apostolou]], Greek tenor who performed widely in Italy under the name Giovanni Apostolu (b. 1860) 
*[[August 31]] – [[Francesco Tamagno]], operatic tenor (b. 1850)<ref>{{cite book|author=James F. E. Dennis|title=The Record Collector|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDxGAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Record Collector|page=13}}</ref>
*[[September 22]] – [[Célestine Marié]], mezzo-soprano, the first "Carmen" (b. 1837)
*[[October 18]] – [[Emmie Owen]], opera singer (b. 1871)
*[[December 9]] – [[Henry Holmes (composer)|Henry Holmes]], composer and violinist (b. [[1839 in music|1839]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Maggie Humphreys|author2=Robert Evans|title=Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA166|date=1 January 1997|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-7201-2330-2|pages=166}}</ref>