Events in Music
- Jan 8 Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established
Event of Interest
Jan 10 Felix Mendelssohn's cantata "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" premieres in Berlin
Felix Mendelssohn
- Jan 26 Gaetano Dinozetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia" premieres in Milan
Birthdays in Music
- Feb 22 Josef Foerster, composer
- Mar 20 Henry Southwick Perkins, composer
- Apr 17 Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1900)
- May 7 Johannes Brahms, composer, born in Hamburg, Germany
- May 9 Boleslaw Dembinski, composer
- Jun 7 Alexander Ritter, composer, born in Narva, Estonia (d. 1896)
- Jun 27 Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
- Jul 22 Benjamin Hanby, composer
- Sep 21 Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer
- Oct 18 Johannes Habert, composer
- Nov 12 Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russian composer (Robert LeDiable)
Weddings in Music
- Oct 3 Composer Hector Berlioz (29) marries actress Harriet Smithson (30)
Deaths in Music
- Jan 7 Ramón Cuéllar y Altarriba, Spanish composer, dies at 55
- Jan 10 Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer, dies at 73
- Jan 19 Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
- Feb 18 Georg Johann Schinn, composer, dies at 64
- Feb 18 Ignac Ruzitska, composer, dies at 55
- Mar 11 Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71
- Apr 7 Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57
- May 14 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88
- May 28 Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer, dies at 74
- May 29 William Marshall, Scottish fiddle composer ( strathspeys The Marchioness of Huntly), dies at 84
- May 30 Josef Slavik, Czech composer, dies at 27
- Jun 20 Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44
- Jun 23 Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer, dies at 73
- Oct 27 Ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66
- Nov 8 Maximilian Stadler, composer, dies at 85
- Dec 10 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer, dies at 79
- Dec 16 Friedrich August Kanne, Austrian-German composer, dies at 55