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EVENTS

February 11 - Gaetano Donizetti 's opera ''La Fille du Regiment'' premieres in Paris

Robert Schumann 's "year of song", in which he writes the two '' Liederkreis '', '' Frauenliebe Und -leben '' and '' Dichterliebe ''. He also marries Clara Wieck .

The first Harmonium is built.

POPULAR MUSIC

"The Old Arm Chair" w. Eliza Cook m. Henry Russell

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Felix Mendelssohn - '' Symphony No. 2 In B Flat Major, "Lobgesang" ''

Louis Spohr - ''Symphony no 6 in G major, Op. 116 "Historical" ''

OPERA

Gaetano Donizetti - " La Favourite " and ''La Fille du Régiment ( The Daughter Of The Regiment )''

Albert Lortzing - ''Hans Sachs''

Temistocle Solera - ''Ildegonda''

Giuseppe Verdi - ''Un giorno di regno''

BIRTHS

April 12 - Franz Xaver Haberl , musicologist

May 7 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , composer

August 28 - Ira D. Sankey

DEATHS

May 27 - Niccolo Paganini , Violinist and Composer

November 19 - Johann Michael Vogl , singer and composer

''date unknown'' - Wojciech Adalbert Żywny , pianist and violinist, teacher of Chopin