1659 in music
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The year 1659 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Final printing of Parthenia, the first printed collection of music for keyboard in Britain.[1]
- Fray GarcÃa de San Francisco founds a Catholic mission in what is now El Paso, Texas, making him perhaps the first music teacher in the future United States.[2]
Publications
- Giovanni Battista Granata â Soavi concenti di sonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola..., a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
- Anthoni van Noordt â Tabulatuur-boeck van psalmen en fantasyen (Tablature-book of psalms and fantasies), a collection of organ music, published in Amsterdam
- Christopher Simpson â The Division Viol, a set of practical instructions, published in London
- Johann Heinrich Schmelzer â Duodena Selectarum Sonatarum
Classical music
- Georg Arnold â Canzoni ariae et sonatae, Op.3
- Robert Cambert â Pastorale d'Issy (incidental music)[3]
- Maurizio Cazzati â Trio Sonatas, Op.18
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Ballet de la Raillerie, LWV 11
- Ballet de Toulouse, LWV 13
- Barbara Strozzi â Diporti di Euterpe, Op.7
Opera
- Antonio Bertali â Il rè Gelidoro
- Robert Cambert â Pastorale d'Issy
Births
- January 17 â Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer
- March 6 â Salomo Franck, librettist for Bach Cantatas
- August 10 â Sybrandt van Noordt Jr., composer
- September 10 â Henry Purcell, composer
- October 22 â Georg Ernst Stahl, lyricist
- October 28 â Nicholas Brady, lyricist
- date unknown
- Matteo Goffriller, cello maker
- Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, composer
Deaths
- April 15 â Simon Dach, hymn-writer (born 1605)
- September 27 â Andreas Tscherning, lyricist (born 1611)
- October 27 â Giovanni Francesco Busenello, opera librettist
- date unknown â Vinzenz Fux, composer (born c. 1606)