1849 in music
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Events
- May 3–9 – Richard Wagner is an active participant in the May Uprising in Dresden, suppressed by the Kingdom of Saxony, and is forced to flee to Zürich.
- September 22 – Johann Strauss I fails to turn up to a banquet in honour of Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, where he is expected to perform a new work. His absence is explained by the fact that he had contracted scarlet fever while working on the new composition; he dies a few days later.
- Hungarian pianist and composer Stephen Heller visits London on a concert tour.
Classical music
- Hector Berlioz – Te Deum
- Franz Liszt
- Ludvig Norman – Piano Trio No. 1 in D major, Op. 4
- Robert Schumann – Manfred Op. 115, overture and Incidental music
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Opera
- Giacomo Meyerbeer – Le prophète
- Otto Nicolai – The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Giuseppe Verdi – La battaglia di Legnano
Popular music
- "Nelly Was a Lady" by Stephen Foster
- "Once in Royal David's City", words: Cecil Frances Alexander, music: Henry Gauntlett. The words were written as a poem by Mrs Alexander in 1848.
- "Santa Lucia" (first published version)
Births
- May 26 – Hubert von Herkomer, artist and composer (d. 1914)
- July 4 – Antonina Miliukova, wife of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (d. 1917)
- July 18 – Anna Judic, entertainer (d. 1911)
- July 22 – Géza Zichy, disabled pianist (d. 1924)
- August 20 – Selina Dolaro, actress and singer (d. 1889)
- September 22 – Olena Falkman, concert vocalist (d. 1928)
- December 4 – Ernesto Köhler, flautist and composer (d. 1907)
- December 14 – François Cellier, conductor and composer (d. 1914)
Deaths
- February 8 – François Antoine Habeneck, violinist and conductor (b. 1781)
- May 11 – Otto Nicolai, composer (b. 1810)
- June 3 – François de Fossa, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)
- June 10 – Friedrich Kalkbrenner, pianist and composer (b. 1785)
- September 25 – Johann Strauss I, composer (b. 1804)
- October 17 – Frédéric Chopin, pianist and composer (b. 1810)
- December 14 – Conradin Kreutzer, conductor and composer (b. 1780)
- December 29 – Dionisio Aguado, guitarist and composer (b. 1784)