1659 in music

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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

Classical music

• Robert Cambert - Pastorale d'Issy (incidental music)^[3]

Opera

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

Births

• January 17 – Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer
• September 10 - Henry Purcell, composer
• date unknown – Matteo Goffriller, cello maker

Deaths

• April 15 – Simon Dach, hymn-writer (born 1605)
• date unknown – Giovanni Francesco Busenello, opera librettist

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