1850 in music

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Jenny Lind tours America, with Julius Benedict as her accompanist.
Soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient marries her third husband, landowner Heinrich von Bock.

Hector Berlioz - La Fuite en Égypte (from l'Enfance du Christ)
Niels Gade - Symphony No. 4
Édouard Lalo - Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor
Franz Liszt - Prometheus
Anton Rubinstein - Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 25
Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 3 op. 97 in E-flat, Cello Concerto op. 129 in A minor
Louis Spohr - String Quintet No. 7 in G minor (of 7)
Robert Volkmann - Piano Trio No. 2 op. 5 in B-flat minor

January 6 - Xaver Scharwenka, pianist and composer (d. 1924)
February 18 - Sir George Henschel, Prussia-born singer, conductor, composer, founder of London Symphony Orchestra (d. 1934)
March 5 - Daniel B. Towner, composer (d. 1919)
March 9 - Alexandre Luigini, composer (d. 1906)
March 18 - Olefine Moe, opera singer
March 26 - Amalia Riégo, opera singer
April 25 - Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
July 3 - Alfredo Keil, composer and painter (d. 1907)
July 4 - Ole Olsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1927)
September 9 - Leopoldo Miguez, composer (d. 1902)
September 21 - Hans Sitt, German violinist, teacher and composer (d. 1922)
November 10 - Arthur Goring Thomas, composer (d. 1892)
December 1 - Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller, Danish composer (d. 1926)
December 9 - Emma Abbott, singer
December 13 - Iver Holter, conductor and composer (d. 1941)
December 20 - Theo Marzials, composer, singer and poet (d. 1920)
December 21 - Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (d. 1900)
December 29 - Tomás Bretón, composer (d. 1923)