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June 11 - Prussian Copyright Act protecting for the first time performances of concert music

Pauline Garcia-Viardot makes her concert debut at the age of sixteen.

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

"Hark, Brothers, Hark", words and music by John Hill Hewitt

" Woodman, Spare That Tree! ", words by George Pope Morris , music by Henry Russell

CLASSICAL MUSIC

''Grande Messe des Morts'' by Hector Berlioz

String Quartet #4 in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn

OPERA

''The Black Domino'' by Daniel Auber , with libretto by Eugène Scribe

''Roberto Devereux'' by Gaetano Donizetti

''Zar und Zimmermann'' by Albert Lortzing

''Agnes von Hohenstaufen'' by Gaspare Spontini

BIRTHS

January 12 - Adolf Jensen

January 2 - Mily Balakirev , composer

April 1 - Albert Rudolph Faesy

August 24 - Theodore Dubois , organist and composer

December 9 - Emile Waldteufel , composer

December 25 - Cosima Wagner , daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner

DEATHS

January 23 - John Field , composer

May 5 - Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli , composer

October 6 - Jean François Lesueur , composer

October 17 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel , composer

October - Samuel Wesley , organist and composer, son of hymn-writer Charles Wesley