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

Events

• Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine is posthumously debuted in Paris at the Grand Opéra (April 28)
• Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde debuts in Munich at the Court Opera (June 10)
• Franz von Suppé's operetta Die schöne Galathee debuts in Vienna's Carl-Theater (September 9)
• Franz Schubert's Unfinished Symphony debuts posthumously in Vienna (December 17)
• Philipp Scharwenka relocates to Berlin.
• Joseph Parry is admitted to the Gorsedd of bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

Published popular songs

• "Jeff in Pettycoats" by Henry Tucker
• "Marching Through Georgia" w.m. Henry Clay Work
• "Roll Jordan Roll" traditional spiritual
• "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" w.m. George Frederick Root

Classical music

• Elfrida Andrée - Piano quintet in E minor
• Johannes Brahms - Trio for violin, horn and piano op. 40
• Felix Draeseke - Lacrimosa
• Antonín Dvořák - Symphony no. 1 (The Bells of Zlonice), also Cello concerto no. 1 in A major (later reconstructed by Günter Raphael and by Jaromir Burghauser
• Edvard Grieg - Piano sonata op. 7 in E minor, Violin sonata no. 1 op. 8
• Franz Liszt - Missa Choralis

Opera

• François Bazin - Le voyage en Chine
• Giacomo Meyerbeer - L'Africaine
• Richard Wagner - Tristan und Isolde

Musical theater

• Orpheus In The Underworld, London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on December 26 and ran for 76 performances

Births

• May 9 - August de Boeck, Belgian composer (d. 1937)
• June 9
  • Carl Nielsen, composer (d. 1931)
  • Albéric Magnard, composer (d. 1914)
• July 21 - Robert Kahn, composer (d. 1951)
• August 10 - Alexander Glazunov, composer (d. 1936)
• October 1 - Paul Dukas, composer (d. 1935)
• October 14 - Walter B. Rogers
• December 3 - Gustav Jenner, composer (d. 1920)
• December 8 - Jean Sibelius, composer (d. 1957)
• December 25 - Fay Templeton, US singer and actress

Deaths

• January 28 - Felice Romani, librettist for Donizetti and Bellini
• April 1 - Giuditta Pasta, opera singer
• October 12 - William Vincent Wallace, composer
• December 6 - Sebastián Iradier, composer

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