August 28 (anniversary of Goethe's birth) – Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin (including the Bridal Chorus) premières under the direction of Franz Liszt at the Staatskapelle Weimar.
Jenny Lind tours America, with Julius Benedict as her accompanist.
Soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient marries her third husband, landowner Heinrich von Bock.
Stephen Foster
"Camptown Races"
"Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway"
"Molly Do You Love Me?"
"Nelly Bly"
M. S. Pike – "Home Again"
"I Have Got The Blues To Day!" w. Miss Sarah M. Graham, m. Gustave Blessner
"What Are The Wild Waves Saying" w. Joseph Edwards Carpenter m. Stephen Glover
Hector Berlioz – La Fuite en Égypte (from l'Enfance du Christ)
Louise Farrenc - Sonata for violin and piano in A, op. 39
Niels Gade – Symphony No. 4
Édouard Lalo – Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor
Franz Liszt – Prometheus
Anton Rubinstein – Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 25
Robert Schumann – Symphony No. 3 op. 97 in E-flat, Cello Concerto op. 129 in A minor
Louis Spohr – String Quintet No. 7 in G minor (of 7)
Robert Volkmann – Piano Trio No. 2 op. 5 in B-flat minor
Daniel Auber – L'enfant prodigue
Fromental Halévy – La Tempesta
Robert Schumann – Genoveva
Richard Wagner – Lohengrin
January 6 – Xaver Scharwenka, pianist and composer (d. 1924)
February 18 – Sir George Henschel, Prussia-born singer, conductor, composer, founder of London Symphony Orchestra (d. 1934)
March 5 – Daniel B. Towner, composer (d. 1919)
March 9 – Alexandre Luigini, composer (d. 1906)
March 18 – Olefine Moe, opera singer (d. 1933)
March 26 – Amalia Riégo, opera singer (d. 1926)
April 25 – Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
July 3 – Alfredo Keil, composer and painter (d. 1907)
July 4 – Ole Olsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1927)
September 9 – Leopoldo Miguez, composer (d. 1902)
September 21 – Hans Sitt, German violinist, teacher and composer (d. 1922)
November 10 – Arthur Goring Thomas, composer (d. 1892)
December 1 – Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller, Danish composer (d. 1926)
December 9 – Emma Abbott, singer (d. 1891)
December 13 – Iver Holter, conductor and composer (d. 1941)
December 20 – Theo Marzials, composer, singer and poet (d. 1920)
December 21 – Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (d. 1900)
December 29 – Tomás Bretón, composer (d. 1923)
February 15 – Elisabeth Forsselius, actress and singer (b. 1771)
March 19 – Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer (b. 1763)
March 25 – Francesco Basili, conductor and composer (b. 1767)
April 3 – Václav Tomášek, pianist and composer (b. 1774)
May – Ludwig Schuberth, composer (b. 1806)
July 28 – Stefano Pavesi, composer (b. 1779)
October 12 – Luigia Boccabadati, operatic soprano (b. 1800)
October 14 – Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu, operatic soprano (b. 1780)
December 3 – Andrei Sychra, guitarist and composer (b. c. 1773)
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