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EVENTS

March 7 – Jenny Lind , the "Swedish Nightingale" debuts at the Stockholm Opera

Giovanni Ricordi buys Giuseppe Verdi 's copyrights.

Frédéric Chopin begins his affair with George Sand .

POPULAR MUSIC

"Annie Laurie", words (1688) William Douglas , music Lady John Scott ( Alicia Ann Spottiswoode )

"'Tis Home Where'er the Heart Is" by Robert Dale Owen

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Franz Lachner - ''Frauenliebe und Leben''

Robert Schumann - ''Kinderszenen'', Op. 15

OPERA

Hector Berlioz - ''Benvenuto Cellini''

Albert Grisar - ''Lady Melvil''

BIRTHS

January 6 - Max Bruch , composer

July 9 - Philip Paul Bliss

October 25 - Georges Bizet , French composer

DEATHS

September 7 - Joseph Panny

September 8 - Pietro Rovelli

March 24 - Thomas Attwood

July 28 - Bernhard Henrik Crusell