Events in Music
- Jun 18 Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin)
- Dec 28 Composer Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 12 Nikolai Afanisev, composer
- Feb 1 Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer
- Feb 17 Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861)
- Feb 21 Charles Scribner, American music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
- Apr 23 Pierre Dupont, French songwriter, born in Lyon, France (d. 1870)
- May 25 Diederich Krug, German pianist and composer (Le petit Chevalier), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1821)
- Jun 15 Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
- Jun 27 August Conradi, German organist and composer, born in Berlin (d. 1873)
- Jul 12 Cesare Dominiceti, Italian composer, born in Desenzano del Garda, Italy (d. 1888)
- Jul 18 Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer, born in Paris (d. 1910)
- Aug 24 Emanuele Muzio, Italian composer, born in Zibello, Italy (d. 1890)
- Aug 31 Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer
- Sep 17 Arthur Saint-Leon, French composer and dancer, born in Paris (d. 1870)
- Oct 11 Angelo Mariani, Italian composer, born in Ravenna, Italy (d. 1873)
- Oct 16 Albert Franz Doppler, composer
- Oct 30 Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer
- Nov 9 Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, French composer, born in Alsace, Guebwiller (d. 1910)
- Dec 8 Josip Runjanin, Croatian Serb composer (Croatian National Anthem) and soldier, born in Vinkovci (d. 1878)
- Dec 15 Auguste Vaucorbeil, French composer, born in Rouen, France (d. 1884)
- Dec 22 Giovanni Bottesini, Italian Romantic composer, conductor and a double bass virtuoso, born in Crema, Lombardy (d. 1889)
Deaths in Music
- Feb 8 Paul Anton Wineberger, composer, dies at 62
- Mar 23 Bernhard Anselm Weber, German pianist, conductor and composer, dies at 56
- Apr 9 Felix Maximo Lopez, composer, dies at 78
- May 15 John Wall Calcott, composer, dies at 54
- Jun 18 Charles Hague, English composer, dies at 52
- Jul 9 Tommaso Sogner, Italian composer, dies at 58
- Aug 6 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64
- Aug 10 Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52
- Aug 29 Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86
- Oct 9 Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68
- Nov 10 Andreas Romberg, German violinist and composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
- Nov 26 Friedrich Heine, German composer, dies at 57
- Dec 20 Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75
- Dec 30 Angelo Maria Benincori, Italian composer, dies at 42