1850 in music
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Events

• Jenny Lind tours America, with Julius Benedict as her accompanist.

Published popular music

• Stephen Foster
  • "Camptown Races"
  • "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

Classical music

• Hector Berlioz - La Fuite en Égypte (from l'Enfance du Christ)
• Edouard Lalo - Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor
• 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

Opera

• Jacques Fromental Halévy - La Tempesta
• Robert Schumann - Genoveva
• Richard Wagner - Lohengrin

Births

• February 18 - Sir George Henschel, Prussia-born singer, conductor, composer, founder of London Symphony Orchestra (d. 1934)
• March 9 - Alexandre Luigini, composer
• July 4 - Ole Olsen, Norwegian composer
• December 1 - Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller, Danish composer (d. 1926)
• December 9 - Emma Abbott, singer
• December 21 - Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (d. 1900)
• December 29 - Tomás Bretón, composer
• unknown date - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, composer

Deaths

• January 27 - Philipp Roth, composer
• March 19 - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer (b. 1763)
• April 3 - Václav Tomášek, pianist and composer (b. 1774)
• December 3 - Andrei Sychra, guitarist and composer (b. c. 1773)
• date unknown - Elisabeth Forsselius, actress and singer (b. 1771)