1659 in music

Overview of the events of 1659 in music

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The year 1659 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

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* 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

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* 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

## Classical music

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* 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

## Opera

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

## Births

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* 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

## Deaths

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* 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)

## References

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1. ^ Parthenia, The Harrow Replicas, Chiswick Press, London 1942
2. ^ Burk, Meierhoff and Phillips, pg. 50
3. ^ Johnson, Victoria, Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime (University of Chicago Press, 2008), p.102

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