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Events

  • January 1 – Julius Friedländer buys the Leipzig music publishing house, CF Peters.
  • February 9 – The second "Querelle des Bouffons" is sparked when Hector Berlioz criticizes Richard Wagner's music in the Journal des débats.
  • Stanislaw Moniuszko – Hrabina, premièred February 7 in Warsaw
  • Jacques Offenbach
  • Barkouf
  • Le carnaval des revues

Musical theater

  • Orphée Aux Enfers, Vienna production, is the first to include the Orphée aux enfers overture, arranged by Carl Binder.

Births

  • January 7 – Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
  • January 24 – Philippe Bellenot, composer (died 1928)
  • March 13 – Hugo Wolf, composer (died 1903)
  • May 5 – Pietro Floridia, composer (d. 1932)
  • May 17 – August Stradal, pianist (died 1930)
  • May 29 – Isaac Albéniz, pianist and composer (d. 1909)
  • June 25 – Gustave Charpentier, composer (d. 1956)
  • July 7
  • <!--July 7-->Florence Farr, actress and composer (d. 1917)
  • <!--July 7-->Gustav Mahler, conductor and composer (d. 1911)
  • September 1 – Cleofonte Campanini, conductor (d. 1919)
  • September 18 – Alberto Franchetti, opera composer (d. 1942)
  • November 18 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist (d. 1941)
  • November 27 – Victor Ewald, composer (d. 1935)
  • December 4 – Lillian Russell, US singer and actress (d. 1922)
  • December 18 – Edward MacDowell, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
  • December 20 – Dan Leno, English music hall comedian, dancer and singer (d. 1904)
  • December 24 – Julius Korngold, music critic (died 1945)
  • December 28 – Harry B. Smith, US songwriter (d. 1936)
  • December 30 – Thomas Bulch, brass-band composer (d. 1930)

Deaths

  • January 26 – Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, opera singer (b. 1804)
  • February 24 – James Barr, composer (born 1779)
  • March 6 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, French cellist and composer (b. 1783)
  • March 14 – Louis Antoine Jullien, conductor and composer (b. 1812)
  • May 21 – Johannes Frederik Fröhlich, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1806)
  • June 21 – Mykola Markevych, musician, composer and poet (b. 1804)
  • 10 August – Sara Augusta Malmborg, singer, pianist and painter (b. 1810)
  • August 26 – Friedrich Silcher, composer (b. 1789)
  • September 25 – Carl Friedrich Zöllner, composer and choirmaster (b. 1800)
  • November 27 – Ludwig Rellstab, critic (b. 1799)
  • date unknown – Veena Kuppayyar, composer of Carnatic music (b. 1798)

References