1848 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Popular music 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Richard Wagner begins writing libretto that will become Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
• Franz Liszt takes up full-time post as conductor to the Weimar court orchestra

[edit] Classical music

• George Onslow - Quintet for Piano and Strings no 2 in G major
• Pietro Raimondi - Putifar-Giuseppe-Giacobbe (oratorio)
• Johann Strauss I - Radetzky March

[edit] Opera

• Giuseppe Verdi - Il corsaro

[edit] Popular music

• "Oh! Susanna!" by Stephen Foster

[edit] Births

• February 23 - Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer
• 27 February - Hubert Parry, composer
• March 31 - John Henry Roberts, composer
• September 5 - Manuel Giro, composer
• unknown date - Otto Malling
• unknown date - Henri Duparc

[edit] Deaths

• April 8 - Gaetano Donizetti, composer
• date unknown - Márk Rózsavölgyi, composer