1849 in music
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See also: 1848 in music, other events of 1849, 1850 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
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Events
- Pianist and composer Stephen Heller visits London on a concert tour.
Opera
- Il Profeta - Giacomo Meyerbeer
- The Merry Wives of Windsor - Otto Nicolai
Classical music
- Tasso, symphonic poem by Franz Liszt
Popular music
- "Nelly Was a Lady" by Stephen Foster
Births
- Emma Abbott
- July 15 - Moritz Heuzenroeder
- date unknown - Antonina Milyukova, wife of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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



