1759 in music
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[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
- Johann Ernst Eberlin - Demofoonte (lost)
- 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, 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
