1659 in music

The year 1659 in music involved some significant 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]

• 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
• Christopher Simpson – The Division Viol, a set of practical instructions, published in London
• Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Duodena Selectarum Sonatarum

• Georg Arnold – Canzoni ariae et sonatae, Op.3
• Robert Cambert – Pastorale d'Issy (incidental music)^[3]
• Maurizio Cazzati – Trio Sonatas, Op.18
• Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • Ballet de la Raillerie, LWV 11
  • Ballet de Toulouse, LWV 13
• Barbara Strozzi – Diporti di Euterpe, Op.7

• Antonio Bertali – Il rè Gelidoro
• Robert Cambert – Pastorale d'Issy

• January 17 – Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer
• March 6 – Salomo Franck, librettist for Bach Cantatas
• August 10 – Sybrandt van Noordt Jr., composer
• September 10 – Henry Purcell, composer
• October 22 – Georg Ernst Stahl, lyricist
• October 28 – Nicholas Brady, lyricist
• date unknown
  • Matteo Goffriller, cello maker
  • Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, composer

• April 15 – Simon Dach, hymn-writer (born 1605)
• September 27 – Andreas Tscherning, lyricist (born 1611)
• October 27 – Giovanni Francesco Busenello, opera librettist
• date unknown – Vinzenz Fux, composer (born c. 1606)