1659 in music
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The year 1659 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Final printing of Parthenia, the first printed collection of music for keyboard in Britain.[1]
- Fray García de San Francisco founds a Catholic mission in what is now El Paso, Texas, making him perhaps the first music teacher in the future United States.[2]
Publications
- Giovanni Battista Granata – Soavi concenti di sonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola..., a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
- Anthoni van Noordt – Tabulatuur-boeck van psalmen en fantasyen (Tablature-book of psalms and fantasies), a collection of organ music, published in Amsterdam
Classical music
- Robert Cambert - Pastorale d'Issy (incidental music)[3]
Opera
- Antonio Bertali – Il rè Gelidoro
- Robert Cambert – Pastorale d'Issy
Births
- January 17 – Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer
- September 10 - Henry Purcell, composer
- date unknown – Matteo Goffriller, cello maker
Deaths
- April 15 – Simon Dach, hymn-writer (born 1605)
- date unknown – Giovanni Francesco Busenello, opera librettist
References
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