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EVENTS

Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Franz Schubert 's ''Great C Major Symphony''

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Johann Nepomuk Hummel - ''2 Preludes and Fugue for Organ''

Josef Lanner - ''Amazonen-Galopp''; ''Malapou Galop''

Robert Schumann :

''Arabesque in C'', Op. 18 1839

''Blumenstück'' (Flower Piece) in Db, Op. 19 1839

''Humoreske in Bb'', Op. 20 1839

4 ''Nachtstücke'' (Night Pieces), Op. 23 1839

''Faschingsschwank aus Wien'', Op. 26 1839

''3 Romances'', Op. 28 (bb, F#, B)

Louis Spohr - ''Concerto for Violin no 14 in A minor, Op. 110 "Sonst und Jetzt"''

OPERA

Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky - ''Esmeralda''

Giuseppe Lillo - ''Il conte di Chalais''

Giuseppe Verdi - ''Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio''

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

" Kathleen Mavourneen " w. Annie Barry Crawford m. Frederick William Nicholls Crouch

BIRTHS

January 1 - James Ryder Randall , popular songwriter

January 9 - John Knowles Paine , composer and musicologist

January 19 - Bohumil Pazdirek

March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky , composer

DEATHS

April 20 - Giuseppe Rossini , father of the composer Gioacchino Rossini

July 8 - Fernando Sor

''unknown date'' - Ferdinand Paer

''unknown date'' - Charles Stokes