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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• The accordion is patented by Anthony Foss.
• Robert Schumann unsuccessfully attempts suicide.

[edit] Published popular music

• "Hard Times Come Again No More" Stephen Foster
• "(I Dream of) Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair" Stephen Foster
• "Maggie by My Side" Stephen Foster
• "Old Dog Tray" Stephen Foster
• "What Is Home Without A Mother", w.m. Septimus Winner

[edit] Classical music

• Hector Berlioz - The Infant Christ (oratorio)
• Charles Gounod - Chant de paix
• Franz Liszt - Les Préludes
• Henri Wieniawski - Le carnaval russe for Violin and Piano

[edit] Opera

• Karel Miry - La Lanterne magique (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on March 10 in Ghent)

[edit] Births

• July 3 - Leoš Janáček
• July 14 - Alexander Kopylov
• September 1 - Engelbert Humperdinck
• November 6 - John Philip Sousa
• November 9 - Joseph Miroslav Weber
• November 14 - Dina Edling, opera singer
• December 13 - G. H. Chirgwin, English music hall comedian and singer

[edit] Deaths

• January 12 - Philip Klitz, composer (born 1805)
• March 3 - Giovanni Battista Rubini, operatic tenor (born 1794)
• April 18 - Józef Elsner, composer and teacher (born 1769)
• May 1 - Jean Coralli, dancer and choreographer (born 1779)
• May 31 - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer (born 1819)
• June 17 - Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (born 1806) (cholera)
• August 21 - August Ferdinand Anacker, composer (born 1790)
• October - Luigi Tarisio, violin dealer and collector (born c. 1790)
• November 2 - Anton Pann, poet, musicologist and composer (born c. 1790)
• November 18 - Alberich Zwyssig, composer of the Swiss national anthem (born 1808)
• date unknown - Louis-Pierre Norblin, cellist (born 1781)
• Emilie Hammarskjöld, composer (born 1821)