1659 in music explained

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
• 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)^[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

• 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)

Notes and References

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