1759 in music

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.

Carl Friedrich Abel â 6 Symphonies, Op. 1
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach â Viola da Gamba Sonata in G minor, H.510
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach â Pieces for Musical Clock
Claude-BÃ©nigne Balbastre â PiÃ¨ces de clavecin
William Boyce â "Heart of Oak"
FranÃ§ois Joseph Gossec â Sei sinfonie a piÃ¹ 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 â Concerto Grosso, BeRI 45
Georg Philipp Telemann â Der Messias, TWV 6:4

Pietro Gianotti â Le guide du compositeur
Cornforth Gilson â Lessons on the Practice of Singing
Antoine Mahaut â Nouvelle MÃ©thode pour jouer la FlÃ»te TraversiÃ¨re
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg â Kritische Einleitung in die Geschichte und LehrsÃ¤tze der alten und neuen Musik
Robert Smith â Harmonics, or The Philosophy of Musical Sounds

January 19 â Karl Alexander Herklots, librettist and author (died 1830)
January 20 â Giuseppe Bertini, composer, choral conductor, music lexicographer, and priest (d. 1852)^[1]
January 24 â Francesco Saverio Salfi, librettist and writer (died 1832)
January 25 â Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist (died 1796)
January 31 â FranÃ§ois Devienne, composer (died 1803)
February 1 â Karl Friedrich Hensler, librettist and author (died 1825)
February 11 â Ernst von Gemmingen, composer and diplomat (died 1813)
February 27 â Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, music editor and composer (died 1813)
April 18 â Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist (died 1823)
15 May â Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer (died 1824)
May 22 â Gervais-FranÃ§ois Couperin, French composer (died 1826)
June 19 â Helen Maria Williams, librettist and writer (died 1827)
19 July â Marianna Auenbrugger, composer (died 1782)
July 29 â Antonio Simone Sografi, librettist and playwright (died 1818)
November 10 â Friedrich Schiller, librettist and poet (died 1805)
November 27 â Franz Krommer, composer (died 1831)
December 25 â John Beckwith, composer and musician (died 1809)
unknown date
- Franz Gleissner, German composer (died 1818)
- William Matthews of Nottingham, composer