1759 In Music

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Events

* Johann Friedrich Agricola succeeds Carl Heinrich Graun as director of Frederick the Great's royal opera.
*Castrato Gaspare Pacchierotti makes his debut at the Perugia carnival, in a female role.
* Tommaso Traetta becomes court composer at Parma.

Popular music

* ''None listed''

Opera

* Johann Ernst Eberlin – ''Demofoonte'' (lost)
*Baldassare Galuppi – ''La clemenza di Tito''
*Florian Leopold Gassmann – ''Gli uccellatori''
*Christoph Willibald Gluck – ''L'Arbre enchantée''; ''Cythère Assiégée''
*François Danican Philidor – ''Blaise le savetier''
* Tommaso Traetta – ''Ippolito ed Aricia''

Classical music

* Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Symphonies, Op. 1
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Viola da Gamba Sonata in G minor, H.510
* Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – ''Pieces for Musical Clock''
* Claude-Bénigne Balbastre – ''Pièces de clavecin''
*William Boyce – "Heart of Oak"
* François Joseph Gossec – ''Sei sinfonie a più stromenti'', op.4
*Joseph Haydn
**Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:G1
**Symphony no 1 in D Major Hob.I:1
*Leopold Mozart
**''Der Morgen und der Abend'' (pieces for keyboard)
** Nannerl's Music Book
*Johan Helmich Roman – Concerto Grosso, BeRI 45
* Georg Philipp Telemann – ''Der Messias'', TWV 6:4

Methods and music theory

* Pietro Gianotti – ''Le guide du compositeur''
* Cornforth Gilson – ''Lessons on the Practice of Singing''
* Antoine Mahaut – ''Nouvelle Méthode pour jouer la Flûte Traversière''
* Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – ''Kritische Einleitung in die Geschichte und Lehrsätze der alten und neuen Musik''
* Robert Smith – Harmonics, or The Philosophy of Musical Sounds

Births

* January 19 – Karl Alexander Herklots, librettist and author (died 1830)
* January 24 – Francesco Saverio Salfi, librettist and writer (died 1832)
*January 25 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist (died 1796)
* January 31 – François Devienne, composer (died 1803)
*February 1 – Karl Friedrich Hensler, librettist and author (died 1825)
*February 11 – Ernst von Gemmingen, composer and diplomat (died 1813)
*February 27 – Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, music editor and composer (died 1813)
* April 18 – Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist (died 1823)
*15 May – Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer (died 1824)
*May 22 – Gervais-François Couperin, French composer (died 1826)
* June 19 – Helen Maria Williams, librettist and writer (died 1827)
*19 July – Marianna Auenbrugger, composer (died 1782)
* July 29 – Antonio Simone Sografi, librettist and playwright (died 1818)
* November 10 – Friedrich Schiller, librettist and poet (died 1805)
*November 27 – Franz Krommer, composer (died 1831)
* December 25 – John Beckwith, composer and musician (died 1809)
*''unknown date''
**Franz Gleissner, German composer (died 1818)
**William Matthews of Nottingham, composer

Deaths

* March 19 – Sebastian Bodinus, German composer (born c. 1700)
* April 14 – George Frideric Handel, composer (born 1685)
*June 12 – William Collins, librettist and poet (born 1721)
* June 22 – Louis de Cahusac, librettist (born 1706)
*July 25 – Johann Christoph Altnickol, organist, singer and composer (born 1719)
* August 8 – Carl Heinrich Graun, composer (born 1704)
* August 24 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, librettist and poet (born 1715)
* September 4 – Girolamo Chiti, composer
* October 18 – Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, French composer (born c. 1680)
*''date unknown'' – Gustavus Waltz, singer

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