1959 in music

List of years in music (table)

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1959.

Events

Albums released (in alphabetical order)

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1959.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1 Bobby Darin Mack the Knife 1959 United States UK 1 – Sep 1959, US BB 1 – Sep 1959, US BB 1 of 1959, US CashBox 1 of 1959, Canada 1 – Aug 1959, Grammy in 1959, POP 1 of 1959, DDD 3 of 1959, Norway 9 – Nov 1959, South Africa 13 of 1959, RYM 15 of 1959, RIAA 15, Italy 38 of 1960, Europe 88 of the 1950s, Party 226 of 1999, Rolling Stone 251, Acclaimed 407, WXPN 518
2 Johnny Horton The Battle of New Orleans 1959 United States US BB 1 – May 1959, Canada 1 – May 1959, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Dec 1958, US CashBox 2 of 1959, Australia 9 of 1959, UK 16 – Jun 1959, South Africa 17 of 1959, RYM 19 of 1959, US BB 38 of 1959, POP 38 of 1959, DDD 47 of 1959, RIAA 333, Acclaimed 821
3 Lloyd Price Personality 1959 United States Australia 1 for 4 weeks Nov 1958, US BB 2 – May 1959, Canada 2 – May 1959, Australia 5 of 1959, US CashBox 6 of 1959, Norway 6 – Jul 1959, South Africa 12 of 1959, UK 25 – Aug 1959, US BB 33 of 1959, POP 33 of 1959, Europe 36 of the 1950s, DDD 56 of 1959, RYM 85 of 1959, Acclaimed 2027
4 Lloyd Price Stagger Lee 1959 United States US BB 1 – Jan 1959, Canada 3 – Dec 1958, South Africa 5 of 1959, UK 7 – Feb 1959, Norway 8 – Apr 1959, US CashBox 11 of 1959, DDD 23 of 1958, US BB 28 of 1959, POP 28 of 1959, RYM 31 of 1958, Europe 86 of the 1950s, Rolling Stone 456, Acclaimed 1013
5 Frankie Avalon Venus 1959 United States US BB 1 – Feb 1959, Canada 1 – Feb 1959, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Oct 1958, US CashBox 3 of 1959, RYM 4 of 1959, Italy 6 of 1959, South Africa 6 of 1959, Australia 15 of 1959, UK 16 – Apr 1959

Top hits on record (in alphabetical order)

See also: Hot 100 number-one hits of 1959 (United States)

Published popular music

Other notable songs

Classical music

Premieres

Sortable table
Composer Composition Date Location Performers
Berio, Luciano String Quartet No. 1 1959-05-12 Austria Vienna Quartett Die Reihe[3]
Lilburn, Douglas Symphony No. 2 1959-06-?? New Zealand Wellington, Town Hall New Zealand SymphonyHopkins[4]
Prokofiev, Sergei Sonata for Solo Violin (1947) 1959-07-10 Soviet Union Moscow Ricci [5]
Stockhausen, Karlheinz Refrain 1959-10-02 West Germany Berlin (Festwochen) Tudor, Cardew, Rockstroh[6]
Stockhausen, Karlheinz Zyklus 1959-08-25 West Germany Darmstadt (Ferienkurse) Caskel[7]

Compositions

Opera

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths

Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

Grammy Awards

Pulitzer Prize for Music

References

  1. Nicola Adelfi, "Per le dolci canzoni d'amore un pandemonio da codice penale", La Stampa, no. 140 (13 June 1959).
  2. Boyes, Georgina (1993). The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology, and the English Folk Revival. Manchester University Press. p. 231. ISBN 0-7190-2914-7.
  3. Luciano Berio Study Center
  4. SouNZ
  5. A Historical Analysis and Performer's Guide to Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata for Solo or Unison Violins, Op. 115
  6. Michael Kurtz, Stockhausen: A Biography, translated by Richard Toop (London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992): 98. ISBN 0-571-14323-7 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-571-17146-0 (pbk).
  7. Michael Kurtz, Stockhausen: A Biography, translated by Richard Toop (London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992): 96. ISBN 0-571-14323-7 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-571-17146-0 (pbk).
  8. "George Perle's Site:Quintets". Archived from the original on January 29, 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2009.
  9. Notes to cpo recordings of Pettersson's symphonies, which contain a chronology.
  10. 1 2 3 Jason Carucci and Louis Karchin, "Wuorinen, Charles (Peter)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
  11. "Archive of Newsmakers Interview with Charles Wuorinen". UXL Newsmakers. 2005. Retrieved January 3, 2009.
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