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Georges Bizet wins the Prix de Rome.
Irish opera diva Catherine Hayes marries her manager, William Avery Bushnell, in San Francisco.

Charles-Valentin Alkan - Sonate de Concert in E, Op. 47 for cello and piano
Georges Bizet - Herminie (cantata)
Franz Liszt
- Dante Symphony
- Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat
Modest Mussorgsky - Souvenir d'Enfance
Bedřich Smetana - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 (revised version - original finished 1855)
Julius Reubke - The 94th Psalm

Karel Miry - Karel V (opera in 5 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on January 29 in Ghent)
Giuseppe Verdi - Simon Boccanegra

January 17 - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
February 28 - Gustav Kerker, German-born composer.
March 3 - Alfred Bruneau, French composer (d. 1934)
March 4 - Henry W. Petrie, US songwriter
March 8 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian opera composer (d. 1919)
April 21 - Paul Dresser, US composer
April 29 - František Ondříček, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1922)
May 2 - Frederic Cliffe, English composer (d. 1931)
May 9 - Luigi Illica, librettist for Puccini, Catalani, Giordano and others (d. 1919)
May 12 - Lillian Nordica, opera singer
June 2 - Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
June 5 - Árpád Doppler, composer (d. 1927)
August 8 - Cécile Chaminade, French composer (d. 1944)
September 8 - Olga Björkengren, opera singer (d. 1950)
November 5 - Joseph Tabrar, songwriter (d. 1931)
November 14 - Rosalind Ellicott, composer (d. 1924)
December 27 - Charles Manners, operatic bass and opera company manager (d. 1935)
December 30 - Sylvio Lazzari, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1944)

January 19 - Franz Limmer, conductor and composer (b. 1808)
February 14 - Johannes Bernardus van Bree, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1801)
February 15 - Mikhail Glinka, composer (b. 1804)
March 1 - Benjamin Cross, organist, singer, conductor and composer (b. 1786)
April - Alessandro Curmi, pianist and composer (b. 1801)
July 15 - Carl Czerny, pianist and composer (b. 1791)
July 16 - Pierre-Jean de Béranger, songwriter (b. 1780)
August 1 - Emilie Zumsteeg, pianist and songwriter (b. 1796)
October 21 - Ananias Davisson, singing teacher and printer of shape note books (b. 1780)
December 11 - Castil-Blaze, music critic, musicologist and composer (b. 1784)
date unknown - John Diamond, dancer (b. 1823)
probable - Ferdinand Prévôt, operatic baritone (b. c. 1800)