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EVENTS

Felix Mendelssohn begins studying composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter .

CLASSICAL MUSIC

String Quintet (Opus 104) by Ludwig Van Beethoven

''Gradus ad Parnassum''- Muzio Clementi

''Andante for Wind Quintet no 1 in E flat major'' - Anton Reicha

OPERA

Franz Danzi - ''Die Probe''

Gioacchino Rossini - ''La Cenerentola'' and ''La Gazza Ladra''

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

" Oft In The Stilly Night w.m. (arr.) Thomas Moore

BIRTHS

February 22 - Niels Wilhelm Gade , composer

March 24 - Aimé Maillart , composer

November 12 - Martin Gustav Nottebohm , musicologist

DEATHS

October 18 - Etienne Méhul