1759 in music

none 1759 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. Popular music None listed Opera Johann Ernst Eberlin – Demofoonte (lost) Baldassare Galuppi – La clemenza di Tito Florian Leopold Gassmann – Gli uccellatori Christoph Willibald Gluck – L'Arbre enchantée; Cythère Assiégée François Danican Philidor – Blaise le savetier Niccolò Piccinni – Ciro riconosciuto Tommaso Traetta – Ippolito ed Aricia Johann Adolph Hasse La clemenza di Tito Achille in Sciro Classical music Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Symphonies, Op. 1 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Viola da Gamba Sonata in G minor, H.510 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Pieces for Musical Clock Claude-Bénigne Balbastre – Pièces de clavecin William Boyce – "Heart of Oak" François Joseph Gossec – Sei sinfonie a più 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 – Concerto Grosso, BeRI 45 Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Messias, TWV 6:4 Methods and music theory Pietro Gianotti – Le guide du compositeur Cornforth Gilson – Lessons on the Practice of Singing Antoine Mahaut – Nouvelle Méthode pour jouer la Flûte Traversière Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Kritische Einleitung in die Geschichte und Lehrsätze der alten und neuen Musik Robert Smith – Harmonics, or The Philosophy of Musical Sounds Births January 19 – Karl Alexander Herklots, librettist and author (died 1830) January 20 – Giuseppe Bertini, composer, choral conductor, music lexicographer, and priest (d. 1852) Stanley Sadie 2001 Bertini, Giuseppe Grove Music Online Oxford University Press 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.02918 January 24 – Francesco Saverio Salfi, librettist and writer (died 1832) January 25 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist (died 1796) January 31 – François Devienne, composer (died 1803) February 1 – Karl Friedrich Hensler, librettist and author (died 1825) February 11 – Ernst von Gemmingen, composer and diplomat (died 1813) February 27 – Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, music editor and composer (died 1813) April 18 – Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist (died 1823) 15 May – Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer (died 1824) May 22 – Gervais-François Couperin, French composer (died 1826) June 19 – Helen Maria Williams, librettist and writer (died 1827) 19 July – Marianna Auenbrugger, composer (died 1782) July 29 – Antonio Simone Sografi, librettist and playwright (died 1818) November 10 – Friedrich Schiller, librettist and poet (died 1805) November 27 – Franz Krommer, composer (died 1831) December 25 – John Beckwith, composer and musician (died 1809) unknown date Franz Gleissner, German composer (died 1818) William Matthews of Nottingham, composer Deaths March 19 – Sebastian Bodinus, German composer (born c. 1700) April 14 – George Frideric Handel, composer (born 1685) June 12 – William Collins, librettist and poet (born 1721) June 22 – Louis de Cahusac, librettist (born 1706) July 25 – Johann Christoph Altnickol, organist, singer and composer (born 1719) August 8 – Carl Heinrich Graun, composer (born 1704) August 24 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, librettist and poet (born 1715) September 4 – Girolamo Chiti, composer October 18 – Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, French composer (born c. 1680) date unknown – Gustavus Waltz, singer References Category:18th century in music Category:Music by year