1759 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Opera 4 Classical music 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

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

[edit] Popular music

• None listed

[edit] Opera

• Florian Leopold Gassmann - Gli uccellatori
• Christoph Willibald Gluck - L'Arbre enchantée; Cythère Assiégée
• Tommaso Traetta - Ippolito ed Aricia

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Deaths

• April 14 - George Frideric Handel (born 1685)
• August 8 - Carl Heinrich Graun, composer (born 1704)
• September 4 - Girolamo Chiti, composer
• unknown date - Giovanni Carestini, opera singer(born c.1705)