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Events

  • April 13 – The first Dresden opera house in Germany opens with the performance of a work by Carl Maria von Weber.
  • December 27 – Franz Liszt gives a piano recital at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin to an enthusiastic audience, retrospectively marked as the beginning of Lisztomania, which will accompany his tours across Europe during the decade.
  • Robert Schumann writes two symphonies: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, opus 38 (also called the "Spring" symphony), and Symphony No. 4 in D minor, opus 120. (The D-minor symphony is edited extensively by Schumann in 1851, and thus is given a much later opus number and subsequently referred to as No. 4, although it is actually his second.)
  • Tenor Domenico Donzelli retires from the stage.
  • Nikolay Afanas'yev resigns as concertmaster of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra in order to conduct the serf orchestra of a wealthy landowner at Vïksa, near St Petersburg.
  • August Heinrich Hoffmann – "Deutschlandlied" (to music written in 1797 by Joseph Haydn)

Classical music

  • Adolphe Adam – Giselle (ballet)
  • Hector Berlioz
  • Rêverie et Caprice, H 88
  • Les nuits d'été
  • Frederic Chopin
  • Ballade No. 3
  • Fantaisie in F minor
  • Theodor Kullak – Cavatine de Robert le Diable
  • Friedrich August Kummer – 2 Concert Duos for Violin and Cello, Op. 67
  • Joseph Lanner – Abend-Sterne Walzer, Op.180
  • Henry Lemoine – Études enfantines, Op. 37
  • Jans Christian Lumbye – Döbler's Zauber Galop
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Variations sérieuses
  • Antigone, Op. 55
  • Allegro brillant, Op.92
  • Clara Schumann
  • Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage
  • Lieder, Op. 12
  • Robert Schumann
  • Symphony No.1, Op. 38
  • Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52
  • Symphony No.4, Op. 120
  • Fernando Sor
  • Le calme, Op. 50
  • Divertissement for 2 Guitars, Op. 62
  • Johann Strauss Sr
  • Amors-Pfeile, Op. 123
  • Elektrische Funken, Op. 125
  • Johannes Verhulst – Symphony in E minor

Opera

  • Daniel Auber – Les diamants de la couronne
  • Michael William Balfe – Keolanthe
  • Gaetano Donizetti – Adelia
  • Fromental Halévy
  • Charles VI
  • La reine de Chypre
  • Franz Lachner – Caterina Cornaro
  • Giovanni Pacini – L'uomo del mistero

Births

  • January 15 – Thorvald Lammers, singer, conductor and composer (died 1922)
  • January 18 – Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (died 1894)
  • January 23 – Sigismund Bachrich, violinist and composer (died 1913)
  • January 28 – Viktor Nessler, composer (died 1890)
  • January 31 – Michael Maybrick, composer and singer, better known as "Stephen Adams" (died 1913)
  • February 10 – Sir Walter Parratt, organist and composer (died 1924)
  • February 19
  • Elfrida Andrée, organist, conductor and composer (died 1929)
  • Felipe Pedrell, composer (died 1922)
  • March 1 – Romualdo Marenco, composer for ballet (died 1907)
  • March 13 – Julius Prott (also known as Guilio Perotti), German operatic tenor (died 1901)
  • May 15 – Giovanni Bolzoni, violinist and composer (died 1919)
  • May 21 – Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
  • May 28 – Giovanni Sgambati, Italian composer, pianist, and conductor
  • June 16 – David Popper, cellist (died 1913)
  • July 9 – Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
  • July 11 – Daniël de Lange, composer (died 1918)
  • July 18 – Hedvig Willman, Swedish opera singer (died 1887)
  • September 8 – Antonín Dvořák, composer (died 1904)
  • September 26 – Signor Brocolini, opera singer (died 1906)
  • October 11 – Friedrich Hegar, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1927)
  • November 4 – Karl Tausig, pianist and composer (died 1871)
  • November 29 – Joe Wilson, singer and songwriter (died 1875)
  • December 14 – Louise Héritte-Viardot, singer (died 1918)
  • date unknown – Apollon Hussakovskyi, composer (died 1875)

Deaths

  • January 25 – Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, "Marianne", cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born 1758)
  • February 14 – Antun Sorkočević, diplomat, writer and composer (born 1775)
  • February 17 – Ferdinando Carulli, composer for guitar (born 1770)
  • May 18 – John Thomson, composer (born 1805)
  • June 12 – Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, archaeologist and composer (born 1786)
  • July 3 – Rosemond Mountain, actress and singer (born 1780s?)
  • August 13 – Bernhard Romberg, cellist and composer (born 1767)
  • August 24
  • Friedrich Curschmann, songwriter and singer (born 1805)
  • Theodore Hook, writer and composer (born 1788)
  • August 27 – Ignaz von Seyfried, conductor and composer (born 1776)
  • September 15 – Alessandro Rolla, violinist, composer and music teacher (born 1757)
  • September 16 – Thomas John Dibdin, songwriter (born 1771)
  • October 16 – Domenico Barbaia, impresario (born 1778)
  • October 28 – Francesco Morlacchi, composer (born 1784)
  • December 22 – Daniil Kashin, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1769)
  • date unknown – Justina Casagli, opera singer (born 1794) (suicide)

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