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 Garcia 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