1659 in music

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The year 1659 in music involved some significant events.

Events[edit]

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]

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

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

^ Parthenia, The Harrow Replicas, Chiswick Press, London 1942
^ Burk, Meierhoff and Phillips, pg. 50
^ 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