Editing 1959 in music (section)

==Opera==
* [[Samuel Adler (composer)|Samuel Adler]]&nbsp;– ''The Outcast of Poker Flat''
* [[Jurriaan Andriessen (composer)|Jurriaan Andriessen]]&nbsp;– ''Kalchas''
* [[Claude Arrieu]]&nbsp;– ''La cabine téléphonique'' (March 15, 1959, RTF)
* [[Henk Badings]]&nbsp;– ''Salto mortale'' (TV chamber opera), Nederlandse Televisie Sichting, June 19, 1959
* [[Samuel Barber]]&nbsp;– ''[[A Hand of Bridge]]''
* [[Grażyna Bacewicz]]&nbsp;– ''Przygoda króla Artura''
* [[Karl-Birger Blomdahl]]&nbsp;– ''[[Aniara (opera)|Aniara]]''
* [[Carlos Chávez]]&nbsp;– ''Love Propitiated'' October 28, 1959, Mexico City (revised version of ''Panfilo e Lauretta'')
* [[Paul Dessau]]&nbsp;– ''Puntila''
* [[Ferenc Farkas]]&nbsp;– ''Paradies der Schwiegersöhne''
* [[Nicolas Flagello]]&nbsp;– ''The Judgment of St Francis'', Op. 28 (composed; staged 1966, New York)
* [[Lukas Foss]]&nbsp;– ''Introductions and Goodbyes'' (a nine-minute opera, libretto by [[Gian Carlo Menotti]])
* [[Peggy Glanville-Hicks]]&nbsp;– ''The Glittering Gate'' (New York, May 15, 1959)
* [[Jakov Gotovac]]&nbsp;– ''Stanac''
* [[Alan Hovhaness]]&nbsp;– ''Blue Flame'', op. 172
* [[Sven-Eric Johanson]]&nbsp;– ''Kunskapens vin''
* [[Elizabeth Maconchy]]&nbsp;– ''The Sofa''
* [[Carl Orff]]&nbsp;– ''{{illm|Oedipus der Tyrann|es|Edipo rey (Orff)}}'' (Stuttgart, December 11, 1959)
* [[Francis Poulenc]]&nbsp;– ''[[La voix humaine]]''