Editing Timeline of musical events (section)

== 1840s ==
* '''[[1849 in music]]''' – Death of [[Frédéric Chopin]], Polish composer and pianist; [[Franz Liszt]] publishes his [[Three Concert Études]], alongside completing ''[[Funérailles]]''. 
* '''[[1848 in music]]''' – ''[[Album for the Young]]'' by [[Robert Schumann]]; Death of [[Gaetano Donizetti]], Italian opera composer
* '''[[1847 in music]]''' – "[[Oh! Susanna]]" by [[Stephen Foster]] published; Death of [[Felix Mendelssohn|Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy]], German composer
* '''[[1846 in music]]''' – [[Adolphe Sax]] invents the saxophone
* '''[[1845 in music]]''' – ''[[Tannhäuser (opera)|Tannhäuser]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premières in [[Dresden]]; The [[Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)|Violin Concerto]] by [[Felix Mendelssohn]]; Birth of [[Ángela Peralta]]
* '''[[1844 in music]]'''&nbsp;– Birth of [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] and [[Charles-Marie Widor]]
* '''[[1843 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Edvard Grieg]], Norwegian composer (d. 1907); [[Minstrel show]] premieres in United States; ''[[Der fliegende Holländer]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premieres in [[Dresden]]
* '''[[1842 in music]]''' – "[[Franz Liszt|Liszt]]omania" sweeps Europe
* '''[[1841 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Antonín Dvořák]], Czech composer; ''[[Nabucco]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]]
* '''[[1840 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]], Russian composer; Death of [[Niccolò Paganini]], Italian composer and ultra virtuoso violinist