# 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.

## 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)
* 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