1759 in music
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See also: 1758 in music, other events of 1759, 1760 in music, list of years in music.
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Events
- Johann Friedrich Agricola succeeds Carl Heinrich Graun as director of 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
Deaths
- April 14 - George Frideric Handel
- August 8 - Carl Heinrich Graun, composer
- September 4 - Girolamo Chiti, composer
- November 27 - Franz Krommer, composer
- unknown date - Giovanni Carestini, opera singer