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Events

  • January 1–April 28 – Richard Wagner completes his opera Lohengrin.
  • January – Franz Liszt takes up the full-time post of conductor to the Weimar court orchestra.
  • March 18 &ndash; The premiere of Fry's Leonora in Philadelphia is the first known performance of a grand opera by an American composer.
  • March 18–22 – Five Days of Milan: Uprising causes temporary closure of La Scala and postponement of the première of Mercadante's opera La schiava saracena.
  • April 1 – Der Ring des Nibelungen: Composition of the poem: Richard Wagner first records his intention to write the music drama that becomes Der Ring des Nibelungen ("The Ring of the Nibelung").
  • April 21–November 23 – Frédéric Chopin visits London and Scotland.
  • May 13 – "Maamme", the national anthem of Finland, written by German-born composer Fredrik Pacius and Swedish-speaking Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, is performed for the first time.
  • June – Bedřich Smetana briefly helps man the barricades on the Charles Bridge in Prague during the revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire, having written some patriotic works in the spirit of the time.
  • July 25 – The National Anthem of Uruguay is officially declared.
  • September – Charles Hallé is invited to Manchester, having moved from Paris to Britain due to the French Revolution of 1848.
  • October (late) – Chopin writes his last will and testament at a friend's house in Edinburgh.
  • date unknown – Timothy Olmstead, psalmodist (b. 1759)

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