| Year |
Event |
| 1841 |
Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer, born |
| 1841 |
T.J> Dibdin, English prolific musician and dramatist, dies |
| 1841 |
Anton Dvorak, Czech composer, born |
| 1841 |
Felipe Pedrell, Spanish composer and musicologist, born |
| 1841 |
Rossini: "Stabat Mater," Paris, Salle Herz |
| 1841 |
Adolphe Sax Belgian instrument maker invents the saxophone (patented 1846) |
| 1841 |
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Opus 38 ("The Spring"), Leipzig |
| 1841 |
Giovanni Sgambati, Italian composer and pianist, born |
| 1842 |
Arrigo Boito, Italian composer and librettist, born |
| 1842 |
Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer, dies |
| 1842 |
Glinka: " Russlan and Ludmilla," St. Petersburg |
| 1842 |
Joseph Hopkinson, American lawyer who wrote "Hail Columbia," dies |
| 1842 |
Lortzing: "Der Wildschutz" ( "The Poacher"), Leipzig |
| 1842 |
Jules Massenet, French composer, born |
| 1842 |
Meyerbeer becomes general musical director of the Royal Opera House, Berlin |
| 1842 |
Karl Millocker, Austrian operetta composer, born |
| 1842 |
New York Philharmonic Society founded by violinist Ureli C. Hill and other American professional musicians |
| 1842 |
Sir Aurther Sullivan, English composer, born |
| 1842 |
Wagner: "Rienzi, " Dresden |
| 1843 |
Joseph Lanner, Viennese waltz composer, dies |
| 1843 |
M.W. Balfe: "The Bohemian Girl," London, Drury Lane |
| 1843 |
Donizetti: " Don Pasquale," Paris, Theatre Italien |
| 1843 |
Edward Grieg, Norwegian composer, born |
| 1843 |
Mendelssohn: music to Shakespeare's " A Midsummer Night's Dream " performed for the first time, Potsdam; Overture 1826 |
| 1843 |
Christine Nilsson, Swedish coloratura soprano, born |
| 1843 |
Adelina Patti, Spanish born American soprano, born |
| 1843 |
Hans Richter, German conductor, born |
| 1843 |
Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri" ("Paradise and the Peri"), secular oratorio, Leipzig |
| 1843 |
Wagner: "Der fliegende Hollander" ( "The FLying Dutchman"), Dresden |
| 1844 |
Berlioz: "Traite di l'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes" |
| 1844 |
H.M. Berton, French composer, dies |
| 1844 |
Flotow: "Alessandro Stradella," Hamburg |
| 1844 |
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Opus 64 |
| 1844 |
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer, born |
| 1844 |
Pablo de Sarasate y Navascues, Spanish violin virtuoso and composer, born |
| 1844 |
Verdi: "Ernani," Venice |
| 1845 |
Gabriel Faure, French composer, born |
| 1845 |
"Lenora," American opera by W. H. Fry produced at Philadelphia |
| 1845 |
Lortzing: "Undine," opera, Magdeburg |
| 1845 |
Wagner: "Tannhauser," Dresden |
| 1845 |
Charles Marie Widor, French composer and organist, born |
| 1846 |
Berlioz: "Damnation de Faust," dramatic cantata, Paris, Opera-Comique |
| 1846 |
Electric lighting at the Opera, Paris |
| 1846 |
Lortzing: "Der Waffenschmied," opera, Vienna |
| 1846 |
Mendelssohn: "Elijah," oratorio, Birmingham |
| 1847 |
Friedrich von Flotow: "Martha," opera, Vienna |
| 1847 |
Mendelssohn dies |
| 1847 |
Verdi: "MacBeth," opera, Florence |
| 1848 |
Donizetti dies |
| 1848 |
Sir Hubert Parry, English composer, born |
| 1849 |
Chopin dies |
| 1849 |
Liszt: "Tasso," symphonic poem, Weimar |
| 1849 |
Meyerbeer: "Le Prophete," Paris |
| 1849 |
Otto Nicolai: "The Merry Wives of Windsor," opera, Vienna |
| 1849 |
Nicolai dies |
| 1849 |
Schumann: music to Byron's "Manfred" |
| 1849 |
Johann Strauss I dies |
| 1849 |
Richard Wagner takes part in Dresden revolt and is forced to flee to Zurich |
| 1850 |
Adalbert Gyrowetz, Bohemian composer, dies |
| 1850 |
Foundation of Bach-Gesellschaft to publish the complete works of J.S. Bach (46 vols) |
| 1850 |
George R. Bristow: "Rip Van Winkle," American opera, New York |
| 1850 |
Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale" tours America under the management of P.T. Barnum |
| 1850 |
Schumann: "Genoveva," Leipzig |
| 1850 |
Wagner: "Lohengrin," Weimar |
Music History Timeline - 1841 to 1850
