# 1841 in music
## Events

* April 13 – The first Dresden opera house in Germany opens with the performance of a work by Carl Maria von Weber.
* December 27 – Franz Liszt gives a piano recital at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin to an enthusiastic audience, retrospectively marked as the beginning of Lisztomania, which will accompany his tours across Europe during the decade.
* Robert Schumann writes two symphonies: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, opus 38 (also called the "Spring" symphony), and Symphony No. 4 in D minor, opus 120. (The D-minor symphony is edited extensively by Schumann in 1851, and thus is given a much later opus number and subsequently referred to as No. 4, although it is actually his second.)
* Tenor Domenico Donzelli retires from the stage.
* Nikolay Afanas'yev resigns as concertmaster of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra in order to conduct the serf orchestra of a wealthy landowner at Vïksa, near St Petersburg.

## Popular music

* August Heinrich Hoffmann – "Deutschlandlied" (to music written in 1797 by Joseph Haydn)

## Classical music

* Adolphe Adam – Giselle (ballet)
* Hector Berlioz
** Rêverie et Caprice, H 88
** Les nuits d'été
* Frederic Chopin
** Ballade No. 3
** Fantaisie in F minor
* Theodor Kullak – Cavatine de Robert le Diable
* Friedrich August Kummer – 2 Concert Duos for Violin and Cello, Op. 67
* Joseph Lanner – Abend-Sterne Walzer, Op.180
* Henry Lemoine – Études enfantines, Op. 37
* Jans Christian Lumbye – Döbler's Zauber Galop
* Felix Mendelssohn
** Variations sérieuses
** Antigone, Op. 55
** Allegro brillant, Op.92
* Clara Schumann
** Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage
** Lieder, Op. 12
* Robert Schumann
** Symphony No.1, Op. 38
** Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52
** Symphony No.4, Op. 120
* Fernando Sor
** Le calme, Op. 50
** Divertissement for 2 Guitars, Op. 62
* Johann Strauss Sr
** Amors-Pfeile, Op. 123
** Elektrische Funken, Op. 125
* Johannes Verhulst – Symphony in E minor

## Opera

* Daniel Auber – Les diamants de la couronne
* Michael William Balfe – Keolanthe
* Gaetano Donizetti – Adelia
* Fromental Halévy
** Charles VI
** La reine de Chypre
* Franz Lachner – Caterina Cornaro
* Giovanni Pacini – L'uomo del mistero

## Births

* January 15 – Thorvald Lammers, singer, conductor and composer (died 1922)
* January 18 – Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (died 1894)
* January 23 – Sigismund Bachrich, violinist and composer (died 1913)
* January 28 – Viktor Nessler, composer (died 1890)
* January 31 – Michael Maybrick, composer and singer, better known as "Stephen Adams" (died 1913)
* February 10 – Sir Walter Parratt, organist and composer (died 1924)
* February 19
** Elfrida Andrée, organist, conductor and composer (died 1929)
** Felipe Pedrell, composer (died 1922)
* March 1 – Romualdo Marenco, composer for ballet (died 1907)
* May 15 – Giovanni Bolzoni, violinist and composer (died 1919)
* May 21 – Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
* May 28 – Giovanni Sgambati, Italian composer, pianist, and conductor
* June 16 – David Popper, cellist (died 1913)
* July 9 – Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
* July 11 – Daniël de Lange, composer (died 1918)
* July 18 – Hedvig Willman, Swedish opera singer (died 1887)
* September 8 – Antonín Dvořák, composer (died 1904)
* September 26 – Signor Brocolini, opera singer (died 1906)
* October 11 – Friedrich Hegar, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1927)
* November 4 – Karl Tausig, pianist and composer (died 1871)
* November 29 – Joe Wilson, singer and songwriter (died 1875)
* December 14 – Louise Héritte-Viardot, singer (died 1918)

## Deaths

* January 25 – Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, "Marianne", cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born 1758)
* February 14 – Antun Sorkočević, diplomat, writer and composer (born 1775)
* February 17 – Ferdinando Carulli, composer for guitar (born 1770)
* May 18 – John Thomson, composer (born 1805)
* June 12 – Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, archaeologist and composer (born 1786)
* July 3 – Rosemond Mountain, actress and singer (born 1780s?)
* August 13 – Bernhard Romberg, cellist and composer (born 1767)
* August 24
** Friedrich Curschmann, songwriter and singer (born 1805)
** Theodore Hook, writer and composer (born 1788)
* August 27 – Ignaz von Seyfried, conductor and composer (born 1776)
* September 15 – Alessandro Rolla, violinist, composer and music teacher (born 1757)
* September 16 – Thomas John Dibdin, songwriter (born 1771)
* October 16 – Domenico Barbaia, impresario (born 1778)
* October 28 – Francesco Morlacchi, composer (born 1784)
* December 22 – Daniil Kashin, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1769)
* date unknown – Justina Casagli, opera singer (born 1794) (suicide)