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The year 1659 in music involved some significant events.

Events

Publications

• 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

Classical music

Opera

• Antonio Bertali - Il rè Gelidoro
• Robert Cambert - Pastorale d'Issy

Births

• date unknown - Matteo Goffriller, cello maker
• Henry Purcell, composer
• January 17 - Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer

Deaths

• April 15 - Simon Dach, hymn-writer (born 1605)
• date unknown - Giovanni Francesco Busenello, opera librettist