Overview of the events of 1759 in music
Methods and music theory
[edit]- January 19 – Karl Alexander Herklots, librettist and author (died 1830)
- January 24 – Francesco Saverio Salfi, librettist and writer (died 1832)
- January 25 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist (died 1796)
- January 31 – François Devienne, composer (died 1803)
- February 1 – Karl Friedrich Hensler, librettist and author (died 1825)
- February 11 – Ernst von Gemmingen, composer and diplomat (died 1813)
- February 27 – Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, music editor and composer (died 1813)
- April 18 – Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist (died 1823)
- 15 May – Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer (died 1824)
- May 22 – Gervais-François Couperin, French composer (died 1826)
- June 19 – Helen Maria Williams, librettist and writer (died 1827)
- 19 July – Marianna Auenbrugger, composer (died 1782)
- July 29 – Antonio Simone Sografi, librettist and playwright (died 1818)
- November 10 – Friedrich Schiller, librettist and poet (died 1805)
- November 27 – Franz Krommer, composer (died 1831)
- December 25 – John Beckwith, composer and musician (died 1809)
- unknown date
- Franz Gleissner, German composer (died 1818)
- William Matthews of Nottingham, composer
- March 19 – Sebastian Bodinus, German composer (born c. 1700)
- April 14 – George Frideric Handel, composer (born 1685)
- June 12 – William Collins, librettist and poet (born 1721)
- 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)
- August 24 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, librettist and poet (born 1715)
- September 4 – Girolamo Chiti, composer
- October 18 – Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, French composer (born c. 1680)
- date unknown – Gustavus Waltz, singer
