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EVENTS

Foundation of the Teatro de la Zarzuela by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri .

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

CLASSICAL MUSIC

''Esther, the Beautiful Queen'' (oratorio) by William B. Bradbury

''Polka Pomnenka'' by Antonín Dvořák

OPERA

Alexander Dargomyzhsky - '' Rusalka ''

Aimé Maillart - ''Les Dragons de Villars''

BIRTHS

January 6 - Giuseppe Martucci

January 9 - Stevan Mokranjac , composer

January 11 - Christian Sinding , composer

May 3 - Max Alvary , Wagnerian tenor

May - George Templeton Strong , composer and artist

October 22 - Eduard Schutt , conductor and composer

December 2 - Robert Kajanus , composer

December 20 - Ferdinand Avenarius , poet and lyricist, relative of Richard Wagner

Helen Hopekirk , pianist and composer

DEATHS

May 3 - Adolphe Adam , French composer

July 29 - Robert Schumann , composer

August 5 - Robert Lucas De Pearsall , composer

August 8 - Lucia Elizabeth Vestris , actress and singer

October 14 - Johann Kaspar Mertz , guitarist and composer

''date unknown'' - Thomas Attwood Walmisley , composer and organise