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Events

January 1 – Julius Friedländer buys the Leipzig music publishing house, CF Peters.^[1]
February 9 – The second "Querelle des Bouffons" is sparked when Hector Berlioz criticizes Richard Wagner's music in the Journal des débats.^[1] Wagner responds on February 15.
February 10 – The Serenade No. 2 in A, Op. 16 by Johannes Brahms is given its first public performance in Hamburg.
March 3 – The Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11 by Johannes Brahms is given its first public performance in Hanover.
April 9 – Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville records himself singing "Au Clair de la Lune" – the earliest known intelligible recording of the human voice.
May 4 – Charles Bacon's bronze statue of the late Felix Mendelssohn is unveiled at Crystal Palace in London.^[1]
September 14 – Franz Liszt makes a will.^[1]
October 22 – The city of Weimar pays tribute to Franz Liszt with a torchlight procession and honorary citizenship.^[1]
The first Viennese operetta, Das Pensionat by Franz von Suppé, is premièred at the Theater an der Wien.
Richard Wagner essay on " Music of the Future" is first published, in French translation.
First official National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Denbigh.

Johannes Brahms
- Vier Gesänge, for women's chorus, two horns and harp, Op. 17
- String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18
Karl Davydov – Fantasie über russische Lieder, Op.7
Eduard Franck
- Piano Trio No.2 in E♭ major, Op.22
- Violin Sonata No.2, Op.23
Joseph Mikel – Les lanciers aux bains de mer
Louis Moreau Gottschalk – Jeunesse, Op.70
Franz Liszt – First of the Mephisto Waltzes
John Knowles Paine – Concert Variations on the Austrian Hymn in F for Organ (Op.3, No.1)
Anton Rubinstein – Soirées à Saint-Pétersbourg
Camille Saint-Saëns
- Symphony No.2, Op.55
- Ave Maria

Gaetano Donizetti – Rita, ou Le mari battu (Posthumously discovered, premiered, and published)
Flor van Duyse – Teniers te Grimbergen (libretto by Prudens van Duyse, premiered at Ghent)
Charles Gounod – La colombe, premiered August 3 in Baden-Baden
Stanislaw Moniuszko – Hrabina
Jacques Offenbach
- Barkouf
- Le carnaval des revues

January 7 – Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
January 24 – Philippe Bellenot, composer (died 1928)
March 13 – Hugo Wolf, composer (d. 1903)
May 5 – Pietro Floridia, composer (d. 1932)
May 17 – August Stradal, pianist (died 1930)
May 29 – Isaac Albéniz, pianist and composer (d. 1909)
June 25 – Gustave Charpentier, composer (d. 1956)
July 7
- Florence Farr, actress and composer (d. 1917)
- Gustav Mahler, conductor and composer (d. 1911)
September 1 – Cleofonte Campanini, conductor (d. 1919)
September 18 – Alberto Franchetti, opera composer (d. 1942)
November 18 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist (d. 1941)^[2]
November 27 – Victor Ewald, composer (d. 1935)
December 4 – Lillian Russell, US singer and actress (d. 1922)
December 18 – Edward MacDowell, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
December 20 – Dan Leno, English music hall comedian, dancer and singer (d. 1904)
December 24 – Julius Korngold, music critic (died 1945)
December 28 – Harry B. Smith, US songwriter (d. 1936)
December 30 – Thomas Bulch, brass-band composer (d. 1930)

January 26 – Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, opera singer (b. 1804)^[3]
February 24 – James Barr, composer (born 1779)
March 6 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, French cellist and composer (b. 1783)
March 14 – Louis Antoine Jullien, conductor and composer (b. 1812)^[4]
May 21 – Johannes Frederik Fröhlich, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1806)
June 21 – Mykola Markevych, musician, composer and poet (b. 1804)
10 August – Sara Augusta Malmborg, singer, pianist and painter (b. 1810)
August 26 – Friedrich Silcher, composer (b. 1789)
September 25 – Carl Friedrich Zöllner, composer and choirmaster (b. 1800)
November 27 – Ludwig Rellstab, critic (b. 1799)
date unknown
- James Barr, composer (b. 1779)
- Veena Kuppayyar, composer of Carnatic music (b. 1798)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e MusicAndHistory.com: 1860 Archived 2013-04-11 at archive.today. Accessed 8 March 2013
^ Marian Marek Drozdowski (1981). Ignacy Jan Paderewski: A Political Biography. Interpress. p. 15. ISBN 978-83-223-1771-6.
^ Richard Wagner; Wagner, Edward (17 November 1983). Richard Wagner: My Life. CUP Archive. p. 774. ISBN 978-0-521-22929-6.
^ John Denison Champlin; William Foster Apthorp (1899). Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Easter-Mystères. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 60.