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, and Symphony No. 4 in D minor, opus 120.
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.

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