Events in Music
- May 13 First performance of Finland's national anthem "Maamme", composed by Fredrik Pacius, Swedish words by Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Musicians Born in 1848
- Jan 21 Henri Duparc, French composer
- Feb 6 Luigi Mancinelli, Italian orchestral composer, born in Orvieto, Italy (d. 1921)
- Feb 23 Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer
- Feb 27 Hubert Parry, English musicologist and composer (Jerusalem), born in Bournemouth, England (d. 1918)
- Mar 9 Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, Belgian composer, born in Jupille-sur-Meuse, Liège, Belgium (d. 1924)
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Musicians Who Died in 1848
- Jan 5 Ferdinando Orlandi, composer, dies at 73
- Apr 8 Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Italian composer, dies at 50
- Apr 24 Francois van Campenhout, Belgian composer (Brabanconne), dies at 69
- Jul 22 Karl Guhr, German composer, dies at 60
- Aug 6 Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58
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