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General German music club
- 4 to 8 August: In Weimar, the second meeting of Musicians takes place. At the meeting of 7 August the General German music club is founded. Founding members are leaving, among others Louis Köhler, Franz Brendel, as well as Franz Liszt, Weimar little later.
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Others
- Summer: The young Czech composer Antonín Dvořák composed his first work, the Quintet in A minor for 2 violins, 2 violas and cello op.1, but which is not performed until 1921 for the first time.
- September 1: At the Opera House on Hagenmarkt in Braunschweig done with Mozart's Magic Flute, the last performance. On October 1, the new venue will be inaugurated on Steinweg.
- OCTOBER 26: Ernst Leberecht Fischer founded in Markneukirchen a drum manufacturing company that today Lefima.
- The Czech patriotic men Hlahol is founded.
- Franz Liszt completed the first of his Mephisto Waltz.
- Léon Minkus is violin soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre.
- Luisa T. Clare set the poem The Song of the Western Men by Robert Stephen Hawker, the unofficial anthem of Cornwall.