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EVENTS

March 4 - Charter of the French Opera House, New Orleans , which opens on December 1 of the same year with a gala performance of Rossini 's '' William Tell ''.

April 4 - Bryants Minstrels debut " Dixie " at Mechanics' Hall, New York City .

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

"Darling little blue eyed Nell" w. B. E. Woolf m. Frederick Buckley

CLASSICAL MUSIC

''Piano Concerto No. 1'' by Johannes Brahms

''Serenade no.2, A'' by Johannes Brahms

''Helges Treue'' by Felix Draeseke

OPERA

César Cui - '' The Mandarin's Son ''

Léo Delibes - ''L'Omelette à la Follembuche''

Charles Gounod - '' Faust '' first performed in Paris. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré , based on a work by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe .

Giuseppe Verdi - '' Un Ballo In Maschera ''

MUSICAL THEATER

''Going It Blind'' - Broadway production

BIRTHS

January 21 - Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski , composer

January 24 - Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky , composer

January 26 - W. O. Forsyth

February 1 - Victor Herbert

March 8 - Otto Taubmann

March 12 - Josef Cyril Sychra , composer

March 26 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov , composer

April 3 - Reginald De Koven , US composer

April 5 - Wilhelm Harteveld , composer

April 11 - Basil Harwood , composer

May 1 - Bohuslav Jeremias , composer

May 2 - Eugene D'Harcourt , composer

June 22 - Frank Heino Damrosch , founder of Institute of Music

June 27 - Mildred J Hill , composer of "Happy Birthday to You"

August 20 - Silas Leachman

September 4 - Edoardo Mascheroni , composer

October 14 - Camille Chevillard , composer

November 4 - Stanislaw Niewiadomski

November 1 - William Henry Grattan Flood , composer

November 30 - Sergei Mikhailovich Liapunov

December 23 - Adrian Ross , English lyricist

December 27 - William Henry Hadow , composer

December 28 - Gerard Brucken Fock , composer

December 30 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster

December 31 - Max Fiedler , conductor

''unknown date'' - August Enna

DEATHS

February 6 - Johannes Josephus Viotta , composer

March 1 - Josef Theodor Krov , composer

June 18 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz , composer

July 29 - Auguste Mathieu Panseron , composer

November 7 - Carl Gottlieb Reissiger , composer

November 22 - Louis Spohr

December 31 - Luigi Ricci , composer