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Events
- April 3 - Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto is premiered at Copenhagen's Casino.
- September 22 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts at the Königlich Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich.
Published popular music
- "The Little Brown Jug" by J. Eastburn Winner
- "Now the Day is Over" by w. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Joseph Barnby
- "Shew, Fly! Don't Bother Me!" by T. Bringham Bishop (possibly w. Billy Reeves m. Frank Campbell)
- "Sweet Genevieve" w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker
Classical music
- Johannes Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem
- Charles Gounod - Les Martyrs
- George Stephanescu - Symphony in A
Opera
- Frederic Clay - Ages Ago
- Karel Miry - Een engel op wacht (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered on December 8 in Brussels)
- Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold
Births
- February 1 - Kerry Mills, US violinist and songwriter (d. 1948)
- February 3 - Giulio Gatti-Casazza, opera manager (d. 1940)
- March 3 - Henry Wood, conductor (d. 1944)
- May 5 - Hans Pfitzner, composer (d. 1949)
- June 6 - Siegfried Wagner, composer (d. 1930)
- July 9 - Arnold Volpe, composer (d. 1940)
- July 13 - Florence Perry, opera singer (d. 1949)
- September 6 - Henry Walford Davies, composer and organist, Master of the King's Musick (d. 1944)
- date unknown
- Kate Carney, singer (d. 1950)
- Carlos Hartling, composer of the national anthem of Honduras (d. 1920)
Deaths
- January 10 - Joan Aulí, organist and composer (b. 1796)
- March 8 - Hector Berlioz, composer (b. 1803)
- March 23 - Charles Lucas, cellist (b. 1808)
- April 1 - Alexander Dreyschock, pianist and composer (b. 1818)
- April 12 - Antonie Brentano, friend of Beethoven (b. 1780)
- April 20 - Carl Loewe, composer, baritone, conductor
- June 4 - Joseph Ascher, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
- June 15 - Albert Grisar, composer (b. 1808)
- August 13 - Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer (b. 1799)
- August 24 - Macedonio Alcalá, pianist, violinist and songwriter (b. 1831)
- November 29 - Giulia Grisi, opera singer (b. 1811)
- December 18 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer and pianist (b. 1829) (overdose of quinine)
- December 23 - Julian Fontana, pianist (b. 1810)
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