Birthdays in Music
- Aug 5 Friedrich August Kummer, German composer and musician, born in Meiningen, Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen (now Germany) (d. 1879)
Deaths in Music
- Aug 12 Ignaz Franz Xaver Kürzinger, German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister, dies at 73
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