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

Events

• Tannhäuser scandal in Paris.
• Giuseppe Verdi is elected a deputy in the first parliament of the new Italian nation.

Published popular music

• "Abide With Me", w. Rev Henry Francis Lyte m. William Henry Monk (Words 1847)
• "Alice, Where Art Thou", w. Wellington Guernsey m. Joseph Ascher
• "Aura Lee", w. W. W. Fosdick m. George R. Poulton
• "The Bonnie Blue Flag", w. Mrs Annie Chamber-Ketchum m. Harry MacCarthy
• "Eternal Father, Strong To Save", w. William Whiting m. Rev. John Bacchus Dykes
• "Go Down, Moses", trad spiritual
• "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty", w. Reginald Heber m. John Bacchus Dykes
• "I'm Going Home to Dixie", w. Dan Emmett a. C. S. Grafully
• "John Brown's Body", w. anon m. William Steffe
• "Maryland, My Maryland", w. James Ryder Randall m. Walter de Mapers (Music "Mini est Propositum" 12th century)
• "The Vacant Chair", w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick Root

Classical music

• Hermann Goetz - Piano Concerto in E-flat

Opera

• Ferenc Erkel - Bank Ban
• Amilcare Ponchielli - La Savoiarda

Musical theater

• Orpheus In The Underworld by Offenbach, New York production

Births

• February 21 - Pierre de Bréville, composer (d. 1949)
• April 7 - Clara Novello Davies, singer, conductor and music teacher (d. 1943)
• May 19 - Nellie Melba, operatic soprano (d. 1931)
• June 15 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, operatic contralto (d. 1936)
• June 17 - Sidney Jones, composer of musical comedies (d. 1946)
• June 27 - Fanny Davies, pianist (d. 1934)
• August 11 - Anton Arensky, pianist and composer (d. 1906)
• December 5 - James Thornton, English-born US songwriter and vaudeville comedian (d. 1938)
• December 18 - Lionel Monckton, English composer 9d. 1924)
• date unknown
  • Camille D'elmar, opera singer (d. 1902)
  • Giuseppe Fiorini, musical instrument maker (d. 1934)
  • Sigismund Zaremba, composer (d. 1915)

Deaths

• January 17 - Lola Montez, dancer (b. 1821)
• January 22 - Giovanni Velluti, castrato singer (b. 1780)
• February 12 - Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
• February 20 - Eugène Scribe, librettist (b. 1791)
• March 14 - Louis Niedermeyer, composer (b. 1802)
• August 9 - Vincent Novello, composer and music publisher (b. 1781)
• October 24 - Elisabeth Frösslind, opera singer (b. 1793)
• December 14 - Heinrich Marschner, composer (b. 1795)
• December 16 - Karol Lipiński, violinist and composer (b. 1790)
• December 18 - Ernst Anschütz, organist, composer and poet (b. 1780)
• December 25 - Natale Abbadia, composer (b. 1792)
• date unknown - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer (b. 1781)