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Contents 1 Events 2 Popular hits 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Michael William Balfe sets off for Danzig to visit his daughter.

[edit] Popular hits

• "Massa's in de Cold Cold Ground" by Stephen Foster

[edit] Classical music

• Joachim Raff - Two Lieder with words by Gotthold Logau

[edit] Opera

• Fredrik Pacius - Kung Karls jakt

[edit] Births

• March 6 - Josef Bayer, composer and music director (d. 1913)
• April 5 - Franz Eckert, bandmaster and composer (d. 1916)
• May 23 - Mathilda Grabow, opera singer (d. 1940)
• June 28 - Hans Huber, composer (d. 1921)
• July 3 - Rafael Joseffy, pianist and composer (d. 1915)
• September 30 - Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, composer (d. 1924)
• November 21 - Francisco Tárrega, guitarist and composer (d. 1909)
• unknown date - Henrique Oswald, composer (d. 1931)

[edit] Deaths

• February 25 - Thomas Moore, poet and songwriter (b. 1779)
• March 5 - Marie Françoise Sophie Gay, librettist (b. 1776)
• March 7 - Jacopo Ferretti, librettist (b. 1784)
• June 6 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer (b. 1773)
• July 17 - Salvadore Cammarano, librettist (b. 1801)
• September 20 - Anton Weidinger, trumpet virtuoso (b. 1767)
• date unknown - Ulrika Åberg, ballerina (b. 1771)