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

Events

• Béatrice et Bénédict, opera by Hector Berlioz, debuts in Baden-Baden (August 9).
• Ludwig von Köchel publishes Chonologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts (Catalogue of Mozart's Works or "The Köchel Catalog").
• Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Forza del Destino debuts in Saint Petersburg (November 10).
• Jules Massenet wins the Grand Prix de Rome.
• The Saint Petersburg Conservatory is founded by Anton Rubinstein.
• Edvard Grieg gives his first concert in his home town of Bergen, Norway.
• Stephen Heller and Charles Hallé performMozart's E-flat concerto for two pianos at The Crystal Palace.

Published popular music

• Stephen Foster - "The Merry, Merry Month of May"
• James R. Randall - "Maryland, My Maryland"
• Julia Ward Howe - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"

Classical music

• Felix Draeseke - Fantasiestücke in Walzerform, opus 3: Nr. 1 in B; Nr. 2 in A-flat
• Asger Hamerik - Quintetto
• Joachim Raff - Piano quintet opus 107 in A minor

Opera

• Julius Benedict - The Lily of Killarney
• Frederic Clay - Court and Cottage (libretto by Tom Taylor)
• Charles Gounod - La Reine de Saba
• Franz von Suppé - Die Kartenschlägerin

Births

• Marcelle Lender, French singer-dancer and entertainer (died 1926)
• January 29 - Frederick Delius, composer
• February 17 - Edward German, composer
• March 21 - Albert Chevalier, English actor, singer, songwriter and Music hall performer
• May 2 - Maurice Emmanuel, composer (died 1938)
• June 5 - Richard Jose
• June 27 - May Irwin
• August 11 - Carrie Jacobs Bond, US songwriter
• August 22 - Claude Debussy, composer
• September 9 - Léon Boëllmann, composer and organist (died 1897)
• October 10 - Arthur De Greef, composer and pianist
• November 1 - Johan Wagenaar, composer (died 1941)
• December 18 - Moriz Rosenthal, pianist

Deaths

• February 7 - František Škroup, composer
• February 16 - Leopold Schefer, composer and poet
• March 17 - Fromental Halévy, composer
• May 21 - Edwin Pearce Christy, founder of Christy's Minstrels (suicide)
• May 25 - Johann Nestroy, singer and actor