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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Foundation of the Teatro de la zarzuela by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri.
• In St Petersburg, Russia, Mily Balakirev (the leader) meets César Cui, as the first 2 Russian composers of The Mighty Five.

[edit] Published popular music

• Stephen Foster - "Gentle Annie"
• Benjamin Hanby - "Darling Nelly Gray"

[edit] Classical music

• William B. Bradbury - Esther, the Beautiful Queen (oratorio)
• Antonín Dvořák - Polka Pomnenka

[edit] Opera

• Alexander Dargomyzhsky - Rusalka
• Aimé Maillart - Les Dragons de Villars

[edit] Musical theater

• Hiawatha. Broadway production opened at Wallack's Lyceum Theatre on December 25 and ran for 24 performances.
• Novelty (Music: Thomas Baker). Broadway production opened at Laura Keene's Variety House on February 22.

[edit] Births

• January 6 - Giuseppe Martucci, composer (d. 1909)
• January 9 - Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac, composer (d. 1914)
• January 11 - Christian Sinding, composer (d. 1941)
• May 3 - Max Alvary, Wagnerian tenor (d. 1898)
• May - George Templeton Strong, composer and artist (d. 1948)
• October 22 - Eduard Schutt, conductor and composer
• December 2 - Robert Kajanus, conductor and composer (d. 1933)
• December 20 - Ferdinand Avenarius, poet and lyricist, relative of Richard Wagner
• September 3 - Selma Ek, soprano (d. 1941)
• date unknown - Helen Hopekirk, pianist and composer

[edit] Deaths

• May 3 - Adolphe Adam, French composer
• July 20 - Anna Nielsen, mezzo-soprano
• July 29 - Robert Schumann, composer
• August 5 - Robert Lucas de Pearsall, composer
• August 8 - Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, actress and singer
• October 14 - Johann Kaspar Mertz, guitarist and composer
• December 31 - Domenico Crivelli, music teacher
• date unknown - Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer and organist