See also: 1758 in music, other events of 1759, 1760 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Johann Friedrich Agricola succeeds Carl Heinrich Graun as director of Frederick the Great's royal opera.

Popular music

• None listed

Opera

• L'Arbre enchantée and Cythère Assiégée - Christoph Willibald Gluck

Classical music

• Pieces for Musical Clock by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
• Symphony no 1 in D Major by Joseph Haydn

Births

• January 25 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist
• January 31 - François Devienne , composer
• unknown date - William Matthews of Nottingham, composer

Deaths

• April 14 - George Frideric Handel
• August 8 - Carl Heinrich Graun, composer
• September 4 - Girolamo Chiti , composer
• November 27 - Franz Krommer , composer
• unknown date - Giovanni Carestini , opera singer