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

Events

Robert Schumann writes two symphonies: Symphony nr.1 in Bb, opus 38 (also called "Spring"-symphony), and Symphony nr.4 in D-minor, opus 120. The D-minor symphony was edited extensively by Schumann in 1851, and thus was given a much later opus number and subsequently referred to as nr.4, although it is actually nr.2. Johannes Brahms preferred the original 1841 version of the D-minor symphony, the score to which he had in his possession, and quarreled with his intimate friend, Schumanns widow Clara Schumann, over the performing rights to this original version.

Popular hits

Classical music

• Giselle music by Adolphe Adam
• Johannes Verhulst - Symphony in E minor

Opera

• Michael William Balfe - Keolanthe
• Gaetano Donizetti - Adelia
• Franz Lachner - Caterina Cornaro
• Giovanni Pacini - L'uomo del mistero

Births

• January 18 - Emmanuel Chabrier, composer
• February 19 - Felipe Pedrell, composer
• July 9 - Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
• September 8 - Antonín Dvořák, composer
• October 4 - Stephen Albert Emery

Deaths

• February 17 - Ferdinando Carulli, composer for guitar
• August 27 - Ignaz von Seyfried, conductor and composer
• September 16 - Thomas John Dibdin, songwriter
• date unknown - Francesco Morlacchi, composer