1849 in music

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

[edit] Events

• Pianist and composer Stephen Heller visits London on a concert tour.
• Richard Wagner leaves Dresden after taking part in the May Uprising.

[edit] Classical music

• Franz Liszt - Tasso (symphonic poem)
• Robert Schumann - Manfred

[edit] Opera

• Giacomo Meyerbeer - Il Profeta
• Otto Nicolai - The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Giuseppe Verdi - La battaglia di Legna

[edit] Popular music

• "Nelly Was a Lady" by Stephen Foster
• "Santa Lucia" (first published version)

[edit] Births

• July 15 - Moritz Heuzenroeder
• date unknown - Antonina Milyukova, wife of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

[edit] Deaths

• February 13 - Christian Rummel
• May 11 - Otto Nicolai
• June 10 - Friedrich Kalkbrenner, pianist and composer
• September 25 - Johann Strauss I
• October 17 - Frédéric Chopin
• December 14 - Conradin Kreutzer, conductor and composer
• December 29 - Dionisio Aguado, guitarist and composer