# 1845 in music
## Events

* March 13 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is premièred in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
* April 21 – Albert Lortzing's opera Undine debuts in Magdeburg.
* June 4 – William Fry's opera Leonora debuts in Philadelphia.
* July – Pas de Quatre is premièred in London, bringing together four of the greatest ballerinas of the time: Lucile Grahn, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Cerrito, and Marie Taglioni.
* July 19 – The National Anthem of Uruguay is first performed with music composed by Francisco José Debali with the collaboration of Fernando Quijano.
* October 19 – Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser debuts at the Dresden Hoftheater.
* Composer Henry Hugo Pierson goes to live in Germany.
* The Hutchinson Family Singers tour England with Frederick Douglass.
* Theodore Thomas arrives in the United States. The conductor would eventually become the Father of American Symphonic culture.
* Austrian pianist Leopold von Meyer (1816–1883) begins a tour of the United States.
* The saxhorn family of valved brass instruments is patented by Adolphe Sax in France.

## Classical music

* Frédéric Chopin - Mazurkas, Op. 59
* Francesco Florimo – La Tarantella
* Hans Christian Lumbye – Champagne Galop, Op. 14
* Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto in A minor
* Pedro Soler – Premier Air varié sur un thème original
* Václav Veit – Les adieux, Op. 26
* Giuseppe Verdi – Seste Romanze II
* Samuel Sebastian Wesley – Morning and Evening Service in E major

## Opera

* W. H. Fry – Leonora
* Albert Lortzing – Undine
* Giovanni Pacini – Stella di Napoli, premiered December 11 in Naples
* Temistocle Solera – La Hermana de Palayo
* Giuseppe Verdi
** Alzira
** Giovanna d'Arco
* Richard Wagner – Tannhäuser

## Births

* January 17 – Erika Nissen, pianist (died 1903)
* February 25 – Eugène Goossens, père, conductor (d. 1906)
* March 5 – Alphonse Hasselmans, harpist and composer (d. 1912)
* March 7 – Edward Lloyd, concert tenor (d. 1927)
* March 13 – Joséphine Daram, opera singer (died 1926)
* March 14 – August Bungert, opera composer (d. 1915)
* May 12 – Gabriel Fauré, composer (d. 1924)
* May 22 – Francis Hueffer, music writer (died 1889)
* June 13 – Effie Germon, actress and singer (d. 1914)
* July 1 – Ika Peyron, composer (d. 1922)
* July 6 – Ángela Peralta, operatic soprano (d. 1883)
* August 10 – Abay Qunanbayuli, poet, composer and philosopher (d. 1904)
* August 25 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the great patron of Richard Wagner
* November 6 – Beniamino Cesi, pianist (d. 1907)
* November 8 – Madeline Schiller, pianist (d. 1911)
* date unknown
** Annie Jessy Curwen, writer of children's music books (died 1932)
** Antonio Galassi, operatic baritone (d. 1904)

## Deaths

* January 19 – Carl Borromäus von Miltitz, composer (born 1781)
* March 29 – Victor Lhérie, librettist (born 1808)
* May 11 – Carl Filtsch, pianist and composer (b. 1830)
* July 10 – Juan Paris, composer and priest (born 1805)
* July 15 – Joseph Augustine Wade, conductor and composer (b. 1796)
* September 23 – Matija Ahacel, collector of folk songs (b. 1779)
* October 7 – Isabella Colbran, soprano and first wife of Gioacchino Rossini (b. 1785)
* October 16 – Martha Llwyd, hymn-writer (b. 1766)
* October 26 – Carolina Oliphant Nairne, songwriter (born 1766)
* November 2 – Chrétien Urhan, violinist and organist (b. 1790)
* December 2 – Simon Mayr, composer (b. 1763)
* December 25 – Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, composer (b. 1759)
* date unknown – Alexander Juhan, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1765)