Events in Music
- May 13 Opera "Die Jagarsbrautt" is completed
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 9 Pavel Krizkovsky, composer
- Jan 23 Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer
- Feb 13 Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer
- Feb 17 Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons)
- Feb 29 Adolf Schimon, composer
- Mar 1 Richard Redhead, composer
- Mar 7 Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer
- Mar 21 Frank Mori, English composer, born in London (d. 1873)
- Apr 17 Gottfried Conradi, Norwegian composer, born in Tønsberg, Norway (d. 1896)
- May 22 Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer
- Jun 18 Martin Andreas Udbye, composer
- Aug 3 Luther Orlando Emerson, composer
- Aug 20 Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer
- Aug 24 Jacopo Tomadini, Italian composer, born in Cividale del Friuli, Italy (d. 1883)
- Aug 30 George Frederick Root, American songwriter (The Battle Cry of Freedom), born in Sheffield, Massachusetts (d. 1895)
- Oct 1 Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer
- Oct 6 Swedish Nightingale [Jenny Lind], Swedish soprano, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1887)
- Oct 8 Stanislaw Katski, composer
Deaths in Music
- Jan 25 Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79
- Feb 7 Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57
- Feb 12 Guillaume Albert Teniers, Flemish composer, dies at 71
- Mar 26 Jean-Etienne Despreaux, French ballet dancer and composer, dies at 71
- May 10 Matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49
- May 14 Paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43
- Aug 6 Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59
- Aug 11 Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56
- Sep 17 Henri Hamal, Belgian composer, dies at 76
- Oct 3 Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74
- Dec 21 Charles-Francois Dumonchau, French pianist and composer, dies at 45