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Events
- January 1 - Hector Berlioz completes his Memoirs.
- April 28 - Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine is premiered in Paris at the Grand Opéra, after the composer's death.
- June 10 - Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde debuts in Munich at the Court Opera
- September 9 - Franz von Suppé's operetta Die schöne Galathee debuts in Vienna's Carl-Theater.
- December 17 - Franz Schubert's Unfinished Symphony debuts in Vienna, following the composer's death.
- Philipp Scharwenka relocates to Berlin.
- Joseph Parry is admitted to the Gorsedd of bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
Published popular songs
- "Jeff in Pettycoats" by Henry Tucker
- "Marching Through Georgia" w.m. Henry Clay Work
- "Roll Jordan Roll" traditional spiritual
- "The Ship That Never Returned" w.m. Henry Clay Work
- "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" w.m. George Frederick Root
Classical music
- Elfrida Andrée - Piano quintet in E minor
- Johannes Brahms - Trio for violin, horn and piano op. 40
- Felix Draeseke - Lacrimosa
- Antonín Dvořák - Symphony no. 1 (The Bells of Zlonice), also Cello concerto no. 1 in A major (later reconstructed by Günter Raphael and by Jaromir Burghauser
- Edvard Grieg - Piano sonata op. 7 in E minor, Violin sonata no. 1 op. 8
- Franz Liszt - Missa Choralis
Opera
- François Bazin - Le voyage en Chine
- Giacomo Meyerbeer - L'Africaine
- Richard Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Musical theater
- Orpheus In The Underworld, London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on December 26 and ran for 76 performances
Births
- May 9 - August de Boeck, Belgian composer (d. 1937)
- June 9
- Carl Nielsen, composer (d. 1931)
- Albéric Magnard, composer (d. 1914)
- July 21 - Robert Kahn, composer (d. 1951)
- August 10 - Alexander Glazunov, composer (d. 1936)
- October 1 - Paul Dukas, composer (d. 1935)
- December 3 - Gustav Jenner, composer (d. 1920)
- December 8 - Jean Sibelius, composer (d. 1957)
- December 25 - Fay Templeton, US singer and actress
Deaths
- January 23 - Josef Leopold Zvonař, composer and music critic (b. 1824)
- January 27 - Giuseppe Rocca, violin maker (b. 1807)
- January 28 - Felice Romani, librettist for Donizetti and Bellini (b. 1788)
- February 20 - Pierre-Louis Dietsch, French composer and conductor (b. 1808)
- April 1 - Giuditta Pasta, operatic soprano (b. 1797)
- September 10 - George Linley, poet and composer (b. 1798)
- October 8 - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist and composer (b. 1814)
- October 12 - William Vincent Wallace, composer (b. 1812)
- December 6 - Sebastián Iradier, composer (b. 1809)
- December 18 - Francisco Manuel da Silva, songwriter and music professor (b. 1795)
- date unknown - François Xavier Bazin, bow-maker (b. 1824) (cholera)
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