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

Events

• May 31 - Frederick William IV of Prussia creates a new order of merit for the arts and sciences. Those honoured include: Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt and Gioacchino Rossini.
• Louis Gottschalk leaves the United States to obtain a classical training in Europe.
• Franz von Suppé makes his debut as a singer as Dulcamara in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore at the Ödenburg Theatre.

Popular music

Classical music

• Frédéric Chopin - Polonaise for Piano in A flat major, B 147/Op. 53 "Heroic"
• Josef Lanner - Die Schönbrunner Waltzer
• Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")

Opera

• Angelo Catelani - Caràttaco
• Gaetano Donizetti - Linda di Chamounix
• Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla
• Albert Lortzing - Der Wildschütz
• Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco
• Richard Wagner - Rienzi

Births

• February 4 - Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (d. 1918)
• March 10 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
• March 22 - Carl Rosa, musical impresario (d. 1889)
• May 12 - Jules Massenet, opera composer (d. 1912)
• May 13 - Arthur Sullivan, composer (d. 1900)
• May 14 - Alphons Czibulka, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)
• June 12 - Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer (d. 1866)
• July 4 - Gyula Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
• July 19 - Karl Zeller, Austrian composer (d. 1898)
• July 9 - Charles Collette, actor and composer (d. 1924)
• September 12 - Marianne Brandt, operatic contralto (d. 1921)
• September 24 - Emma Livry, ballerina (d. 1863)
• October 13 - Antonio Pasculli, oboist and composer (d. 1924)
• November 8 - Eugen Gura, operatic baritone (d. 1906)

Deaths

• March 6 - Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1762)
• March 7 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer and conductor (b. 1780)
• March 15 - Luigi Cherubini, composer (b. 1760)
• April 6 - Johann Anton André, composer and music publisher (b. 1775)
• May 5 - Jean Elleviou, operatic tenor (b. 1769)
• June 4 - Georg Friedrich Treitschke, librettist (b. 1776)
• September 15 - Pierre Baillot, violinist and composer (b. 1771)
• December 25 - Bedřich Diviš Weber, composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory (b. 1766)