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EVENTS

Pianist and composer Stephen Heller visits London on a concert tour.

Richard Wagner leaves Dresden after taking part in the May Uprising .

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Franz Liszt - ''Tasso'' (symphonic poem)

Robert Schumann - ''Manfred''

OPERA

Giacomo Meyerbeer - ''Il Profeta''

Otto Nicolai - ''The Merry Wives of Windsor''

Giuseppe Verdi - ''La battaglia di Legna''

POPULAR MUSIC

"Nelly Was a Lady" by Stephen Foster

BIRTHS

Emma Abbott

July 15 - Moritz Heuzenroeder

''date unknown'' - Antonina Milyukova , wife of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

DEATHS

February 13 - Christian Rummel

May 11 - Otto Nicolai

June 10 - Friedrich Kalkbrenner , pianist and composer

September 25 - Johann Strauss I

October 17 - Frédéric Chopin

December 14 - Conradin Kreutzer , conductor and composer

December 29 - Dionisio Aguado , guitarist and composer