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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)
