Events in Music
- Apr 20 Crosby Opera House opens in Chicago, Illinois; destroyed in the Great Fire of 1871
- Apr 28 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine" premieres in Paris
- Jun 10 Richard Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde" premieres in Munich, Germany
- Dec 17 Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished Symphony" premieres in Vienna with Johann von Herbeck conducting
Jean SibeliusMusicians Who Died in 1865
- Jan 31 Aristide Farrenc, French flautist, music publisher, and musicologist (Trésor des pianistes), dies at 70
- Apr 1 Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano, dies at 67
- Apr 8 John Park, Scottish composer, dies at 61
- Apr 14 Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician, and piano maker, dies at 65
- Apr 26 Charles J Sax, Belgium musician & father of Adolphe Sax inventor of the saxophone, dies at 74
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