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

Events

• The first Viennese operetta, Das Pensionat by Franz von Suppé, debuts at the Theater an der Wien
• First official National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Denbigh.

Published popular music

• "Down Among the Cane-Brakes" By Stephen Foster
• "Mary Of Argyle"     w. Charles H. Jefferys m. Sidney Nelson
• "Old Black Joe" By Stephen Foster
• "Virginia Belle" By Stephen Foster

Classical music

• Anton Rubinstein - Soirées à Saint-Pétersbourg
• Franz Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Opera

• Flor van Duyse - Teniers te Grimbergen (libretto by Prudens van Duyse, premiered at Ghent)

Musical theater

• Orphée Aux Enfers, Vienna production

Births

• March 13 - Hugo Wolf, composer (d. 1903)
• May 29 - Isaac Albéniz, pianist and composer (d. 1909)
• June 25 - Gustave Charpentier, composer (d. 1956)
• July 7
  • Florence Farr, actress and composer (d. 1917)
  • Gustav Mahler, conductor and composer (d. 1911)
• September 1 - Cleofonte Campanini, conductor (d. 1919)
• September 18 - Alberto Franchetti, opera composer (d. 1942)
• November 18 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist (d. 1941)
• November 27 - Victor Ewald, composer (d. 1935)
• December 4 - Lillian Russell, US singer and actress (d. 1922)
• December 18 - Edward MacDowell, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
• December 20 - Dan Leno, English music hall comedian, dancer and singer (d. 1904)
• December 28 - Harry B. Smith, US songwriter (d. 1936)

Deaths

• January 26 - Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, opera singer (b. 1804)
• March 6 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, French cellist and composer (b. 1783)
• August 26 - Friedrich Silcher, composer (b. 1789)
• September 25 - Carl Friedrich Zöllner, composer and choirmaster (b. 1800)
• date unknown
  • James Barr, composer (b. 1779)
  • Johannes Frederik Fröhlich, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1806)

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