Events in Music
- Jun 10 Pesaro opera theater opens with Gioachino Rossini's "La gaza ladra"
- Oct 24 Felix Mendelssohn, aged 9, performs his first public concert in Berlin
- Dec 24 Christmas carol "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber is first sung at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria
Musicians Born in 1818
- Mar 27 Jacob Axel Josephson, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1880)
- Apr 6 Francis Henry Brown, composer
- Apr 25 Marek Konrad Sokolowski, Polish guitarist and composer, born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine (d. 1883)
- Jun 17 Charles Gounod, French opera composer (Faust), born in Paris, France (d. 1893)
- Jun 21 Ernst II, Duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93) and composer, born in Ehrenburg Palace, Coburg, Germany (d. 1893)
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Musicians Who Died in 1818
- Jan 1 Fedele Fenaroli, Italian composer, dies at 87
- Feb 1 Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer, dies at 74
- Mar 23 Nicolas Isouard, French composer, dies at 42
- Mar 28 Antonio Capuzzi, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 62
- May 7 Leopold Koželuch, Czech composer, dies at 70
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