Events in Music
Music Premiere
Jan 2 Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman" premieres in Dresden
Richard Wagner
- Jan 4 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale" premieres in Paris
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 1 Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer
- Jan 9 Christiaan A Ulder, Curacao, composer (waltzes/tumbas)
- Jan 23 Bolko von Hochberg, German diplomat & composer, born in Castle Fürstenstein, Silesia (d. 1926)
- Feb 19 Adelina Patti, opera soprano (Lucio), born in Madrid, Spain
- Mar 5 William F Sudds, composer
- Mar 6 Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer
- Mar 8 Vilhelm Svedbom, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1904)
- Apr 4 Hans Richter, Austrian-Hungarian composer, born in Raab, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1916)
- Apr 8 Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], Danish composer, born in Frederiksberg, Denmark (d. 1923)
- Apr 14 Gustave Leon Huberti, Belgian composer, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1910)
- Apr 15 Carl Eilhardt, German composer and conductor, born in Erfurt, Germany (d. 1911)
- May 2 Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1922)
- May 23 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer
- May 29 Émile Pessard, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1917)
- Jun 10 Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1900)
- Jun 15 Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (Bewitched One), born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1907)
- Jun 16 David Popper, composer
- Jun 16 Jan Malat, Czech composer (d. 1915)
- Jun 19 Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1917)
- Aug 4 Flor van Duyse, composer
- Aug 5 James Scott Skinner, composer
- Aug 26 George August Lumbye, composer
- Sep 4 Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer, born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Austrian Empire (d. 1936)
- Sep 21 David Emlyn Evans, British composer, born in Pen’ralltwen, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthen, Wales (d. 1913)
- Nov 2 Caryl Florio, composer, Pen-name of William James Rob John
- Nov 2 Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel, born in Pest (d. 1893)
- Nov 23 Josef Sucher, composer
- Nov 28 Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer
- Dec 13 George Stephănescu, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1925)
Deaths in Music
- Jan 7 Franz Schoberlechner, Austrian composer, dies at 45
- Jan 11 Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, poet and composer of the lyrics to "Star Spangled Banner" dies at 63
- Apr 14 Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austrian composer/violist, dies at 42
- May 12 Johann Georg Lickl, Austrian composer, dies at 74
- Jun 22 Gabriele Prota, composer, dies at 88
- Oct 10 Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer, dies at 75
- Nov 29 Marco Santucci, Italian composer, dies at 81