1659 in music

The year 1659 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Final printing of Parthenia, the first printed collection of music for keyboard in Britain.
 * 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.

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

Classical music

 * Georg Arnold – Canzoni ariae et sonatae, Op.3
 * Robert Cambert – Pastorale d'Issy (incidental music)
 * 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

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

Births

 * 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

 * 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)