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1759 in music
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''See also:''
1758 in music,
1759 other events of 1759,
1760 in music,
list of years in music.
Events
*
Johann Friedrich Agricola succeeds
Carl Heinrich Graun as director of
Frederick II of Prussia Frederick the Great's royal
opera.
Popular music
* ''None listed''
Opera
*''L'Arbre enchantée'' and ''Cythère Assiégée'' -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Classical music
*''Pieces for Musical Clock'' by
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
*''Symphony no 1 in D Major'' by
Joseph Haydn
Births
*
January 25 -
Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist
*
January 31 -
François Devienne, composer
*''unknown date'' -
William Matthews of Nottingham, composer
*
November 27 -
Franz Krommer, composer
Deaths
*
April 14 -
George Frideric Handel
*
August 8 -
Carl Heinrich Graun, composer
*
September 4 -
Girolamo Chiti, composer
*''unknown date'' -
Giovanni Carestini, opera singer
Category:1759 Music
Category:Years in music
