1759 in music
Events
Popular music
Opera
Classical music
Births
- January 19 – Karl Alexander Herklots, librettist and author
- January 20 – Giuseppe Bertini, composer, choral conductor, music lexicographer, and priest
- January 24 – Francesco Saverio Salfi, librettist and writer
- January 25 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist
- January 31 – François Devienne, composer
- February 1 – Karl Friedrich Hensler, librettist and author
- February 11 – Ernst von Gemmingen, composer and diplomat
- February 27 – Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, music editor and composer
- April 18 – Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist
- 15 May – Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer
- May 22 – Gervais-François Couperin, French composer
- June 19 – Helen Maria Williams, librettist and writer
- 19 July – Marianna Auenbrugger, composer
- July 29 – Antonio Simone Sografi, librettist and playwright
- November 10 – Friedrich Schiller, librettist and poet
- November 27 – Franz Krommer, composer
- December 25 – John Beckwith, composer and musician
- unknown date
- *Franz Gleissner, German composer
- *William Matthews of Nottingham, composer
Deaths
- March 19 – Sebastian Bodinus, German composer
- April 14 – George Frideric Handel, composer
- June 12 – William Collins, librettist and poet
- June 22 – Louis de Cahusac, librettist
- July 25 – Johann Christoph Altnickol, organist, singer and composer
- August 8 – Carl Heinrich Graun, composer
- August 24 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, librettist and poet
- September 4 – Girolamo Chiti, composer
- October 18 – Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, French composer
- date unknown – Gustavus Waltz, singer