1759 in music

1759 in music

Events

* Johann Friedrich Agricola succeeds Carl Heinrich Graun as director of Frederick the Great's royal opera.

Popular music

* "None listed"

Opera

*Johann Ernst Eberlin - "Demofoonte" (lost)
*Florian Leopold Gassmann - "Gli uccellatori"
*Christoph Willibald Gluck - "L'Arbre enchantée"; "Cythère Assiégée"
*Tommaso Traetta - "Ippolito ed Aricia"

Classical music

*Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - "Pieces for Musical Clock"
*François Joseph Gossec - "Sei sinfonie a più stromenti", op.4
*Joseph Haydn - "Symphony no 1 in D Major"

Births

*January 25 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist (died 1796)
*January 31 - François Devienne, composer (died 1803)
*"unknown date" - William Matthews of Nottingham, composer
*November 27 - Franz Krommer, composer (died 1831)

Deaths

*April 14 - George Frideric Handel, composer (born 1685)
*June 22 - Louis de Cahusac, librettist (born 1706)
*July 25 - Johann Christoph Altnickol, organist, singer and composer (born 1720)
*August 8 - Carl Heinrich Graun, composer (born 1704)
*September 4 - Girolamo Chiti, composer
*"date unknown"
**Giovanni Carestini, opera singer (born c.1705)
**Gustavus Waltz, singer


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