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EVENTS

, Franz Liszt and Gioacchino Rossini .

Louis Gottschalk leaves the United States to obtain a classical training in Europe.

POPULAR HITS

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Frédéric Chopin - ''Polonaise for Piano in A flat major, B 147/Op. 53 "Heroic" ''

Josef Lanner - ''Die Schönbrunner Waltzer''

Felix Mendelssohn - ''Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")''

OPERA

''Caràttaco'' by Angelo Catelani

'' Linda Di Chamounix '' by Gaetano Donizetti

'' Nabucco '' by Giuseppe Verdi

'' Rienzi '' by Richard Wagner

'' Russlan And Ludmilla '' by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

'' Der Wildschütz '' by Albert Lortzing

BIRTHS

January 7 - Johan Lindegren

May 12 - Jules Massenet

May 13 - Arthur Sullivan , composer

July 19 - Karl Zeller , Austrian composer

DEATHS

March 7 - Christian Theodor Weinlig , composer and conductor

March 15 - Luigi Cherubini , composer

September 15 - Pierre Baillot , violinist and composer