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Events

  • February 28 – Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Most of the audience perishes because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside.
  • March 3 – I Lombardi alla prima crociata is performed at Palmo's Opera House in New York City, the first presentation of a Verdi opera in the United States.
  • March 14 – Verdi's Macbeth is premiėred at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.
  • September – Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.

Publications

  • Vladimir Stasov publishes a monograph on Mikhail Glinka's use of folk motifs in his music.
  • "Cantique de Noël" ("O Holy Night") w. (Fr) Placide Cappeau (Eng) John Sullivan Dwight m. Adolphe Adam
  • "Dinah Dear" by Philip Klitz
  • "Miss Ginger" by Philip Klitz
  • "Roll On Silver Moon" by Joseph W. Turner

Classical music

  • Franz Berwald – A Rustic Wedding
  • Frederic Chopin
  • Waltz Opus 64 No.1 (Minute)
  • Waltz Op. 64. No. 2
  • Cello Sonata
  • August Freyer – Concert Variations, Op.2
  • Franz Liszt
  • Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
  • Glanes de Woronince
  • Most of the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
  • Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 6
  • Jacques Offenbach – Concerto Militaire for cello and orchestra
  • Robert Schumann
  • Symphony No. 2
  • Piano Trio No. 1
  • Henryk Wieniawski – Grand Caprice Fantastique Op. 1

Opera

  • Francisco Asenjo Barbieri – Il Buontempone
  • Giovanni Bottesini – Cristoforo Colombo
  • Friedrich von Flotow – Martha
  • Ivar Hallstrom – Hvita frun på Drottningholm (libretto by Frans Hedberg)
  • Karel Miry – Brigitta (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on June 27 in Ghent)
  • Jacques Offenbach - L'alcôve
  • Giuseppe Verdi – Macbeth
  • William Vincent Wallace – Matilda of Hungary

Births

  • January 1 – Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, music teacher and composer (d. 1915)
  • February 15 – Robert Fuchs, composer and music teacher (d. 1927)
  • March 2 – Richard Temple, singer, actor and theatre director (d. 1912)
  • March 9 – Axel Grandjean, conductor and composer (d. 1932)
  • June 28 – Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, composer (d. 1927)
  • July 12 – Karl Heinrich Barth, pianist and music teacher (d. 1922)
  • July 21 – Víctor Mirecki Larramat, cellist and music teacher (d. 1921)
  • October 21 – Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for some of Puccini's operas (d. 1906)
  • November 1 – Emma Albani, soprano (d. 1930)
  • November 30 – August Klughardt, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
  • December 1 – Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
  • December 9 – George Grossmith, comic writer and performer (d. 1912)
  • December 18 – Augusta Holmès, composer (d. 1903)
  • December 28 – James Frederick Swift, organist and composer (d. 1931)
  • date unknown – Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (d. 1894)

Deaths

  • January 6 – Tyagaraja, Carnatic music composer (born 1767)
  • April 23 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (born 1783)
  • May 14 – Fanny Hensel, pianist and composer (born 1805; stroke)
  • June 11 – Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (born 1784)
  • June 18 – Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (born 1770)
  • July 19 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (born 1772)
  • September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (born 1769)
  • September 25 – Emma Albertazzi, English contralto (born 1814)
  • November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1809)
  • November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte, hymnist (born 1793)
  • date unknown – Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)

References