Music year 1759

Music year 1759
Georg Friedrich Händel dies in London at the age of 74.	The first works of Joseph Haydn will be premiered.

Events

Johann Friedrich Agricola is appointed Prussian court conductor by Friedrich II .
Tommaso Traetta becomes court composer in Parma.

November 5th : The world premiere of the musical drama Ippolito ed Aricia by Ignaz Holzbauer takes place in Mannheim.
November 24th : the world premiere of the opera Der neue Kkrme Teufel by Joseph Haydn takes place in Vienna .

Johann Ernst Eberlin's setting of Pietro Metastasio's libretto Demofoonte will be premiered at the Court Theater in Salzburg .
In Parma, Tommaso Traetta's setting of Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca's libretto Solimano will be premiered .

January 25 : Robert Burns , Scottish poet († 1796 )
January 31 : François Devienne , French composer and flautist († 1803 )
0March 2 : Friedrich Haeffner , Swedish composer († 1833 )
April 18 : Jacques Widerkehr , French composer and cellist († 1823 )
May 6 : Josef Karel Ambrož , Bohemian tenor and composer († 1822 )
May 15 : Maria Theresia von Paradis , Austrian pianist, singer, composer and music teacher († 1824 )
May 24 : Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach , German composer († 1845 )
May 30th : Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch , German Protestant clergyman, botanist and music teacher († 1831 )
0June 4 : Maria Rosa Coccia , Roman composer († 1833 )
July 10 : Sophie Westenholz , German singer, pianist and composer († 1838 )
July 19 : Marianne Auenbrugger , Austrian pianist and composer († 1782 )
0September 7th : Wilhelm Pohl , German composer († before 1807 )
September 19 : Adriana Ferrarese del Bene , Venetian opera singer († 1803 )
0November 3 : Giuseppe Gherardeschi , Italian conductor, organist and composer († 1815 )
November 27 : Franz Krommer , Czech violinist and composer († 1831 )

Carl Heinrich Graun

Louis de Caix d'Hervelois and his daughter

March 19 : Sebastian Bodinus , German composer and Kapellmeister (* 1700 )
April 14th : Georg Friedrich Händel , German-British composer and opera entrepreneur (* 1685 )
May 14 : Christoph Gottlieb Fröber , German cantor and composer (* 1704 )
June 22nd : Louis de Cahusac , French playwright and librettist, main contributor to the Encyclopédie for the subjects of dance, music and festivals (* 1706 )
July 25th (buried): Johann Christoph Altnikol , German composer and organist (* 1719 )
0August 8 : Carl Heinrich Graun , German composer and tenor (* 1704 )
August 12th : Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost , Thuringian organ builder (* around 1680)
0September 4 : Girolamo Chiti , Italian composer (* 1679 )
September 18 : Santa Stella , Italian soprano (* 1686 )
October 18 : Louis de Caix d'Hervelois , French gambist and composer (* 1680 )

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