1759 in music

See also: 1758 in music, other events of 1759, 1760 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• None listed

Popular music

• None listed

Opera

• L'Arbre enchantée and Cythère Assiégée - Christoph Willibald Gluck

Classical music

• 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