1759 in music
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Events
- Johann Friedrich Agricola succeeds Carl Heinrich Graun as director of Frederick the Great's royal opera.
- Castrato Gaspare Pacchierotti makes his debut at the Perugia carnival, in a female role.
- Tommaso Traetta becomes court composer at Parma.
Popular music
- None listed
Opera
- Johann Ernst Eberlin – Demofoonte (lost)
- Florian Leopold Gassmann – Gli uccellatori
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – L'Arbre enchantée; Cythère Assiégée
- Tommaso Traetta – Ippolito ed Aricia
Classical music
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Pieces for Musical Clock
- François Joseph Gossec – Sei sinfonie a più stromenti, op.4
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 1 in D Major
Births
- January 25 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist (died 1796)
- January 31 – François Devienne, composer (died 1803)
- April 18 – Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist (died 1823)
- 15 May – Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer (died 1824)
- 19 July – Marianna Auenbrugger, composer (died 1782)
- November 27 – Franz Krommer, composer (died 1831)
- unknown date – William Matthews of Nottingham, composer
Deaths
- April 14 – George Frideric Handel, composer (born 1685)
- June 22 – Louis de Cahusac, librettist (born 1706)
- July 25 – Johann Christoph Altnickol, organist, singer and composer (born 1719)
- August 8 – Carl Heinrich Graun, composer (born 1704)
- September 4 – Girolamo Chiti, composer
- date unknown – Gustavus Waltz, singer