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EVENTS

Adolphe Sax invents the " Saxophone ".

Electric lighting is installed at the Paris Opéra.

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

"When The Swallows Homeward Fly" w.m. Franz Abt

ORATORIO

''Elijah'' by Felix Mendelssohn

''Ruth'' by César Auguste Franck

CLASSICAL MUSIC

''Symphony in C major'' (''2nd symphony'') - Robert Schumann

OPERA

Julius Benedict - ''The Crusaders''

Hector Berlioz - ''La Damnation de Faust''

Albert Lortzing - ''Der Waffenschmied''

Saverio Mercadante - ''Orazi e Curiazi''

BIRTHS

January 2 - Sandor Erkel

February 24 - Luigi Denza

February 26 - George C. Stebbins

November 2 - Antonio Pena Y Goni

DEATHS

February 3 - Joseph Weigl the younger, composer and conductor

February 18 - William Hawes , choirmaster

April 16 - Domenico Dragonetti , double-bass player

April 24 - Girolamo Crescentini , ''castrato'' singer

August 7 - Johann Heinrich Christian Rinck