1659 in music

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 GranataSoavi concenti di sonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola..., a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
  • Anthoni van NoordtTabulatuur-boeck van psalmen en fantasyen (Tablature-book of psalms and fantasies), a collection of organ music, published in Amsterdam

Classical music

Opera

Births

Deaths

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
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