Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Feb 13 German composer, noted chiefly for his operas (The Ring of the Nibelung; The Flying Dutchman), dies of a heart attack while visiting Venice at 69
- Feb 17 Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer, dies at 76
- Mar 15 Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55
- Apr 10 Emilie Mayer, German composer of Romantic music, dies at 70
- Apr 18 Agnes Tyrrell, Czech pianist and composer, dies at 36
- Apr 22 Octave Fouque, French pianist and composer, dies at 38
- May 28 August Freyer, Polish organist (Warsaw Evangelical Church, 1837-83), composer, and pedagogue, dies at 81
- Jun 6 Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer, dies at 29
- Jun 10 Carl Grädener, German cellist, conductor, teacher, and composer, dies at 71
- Jul 1 Manuel Gregorio Tavárez, Puerto Rican composer, dies at 39
- Jul 5 Frederick Scotson Clark, English organist and composer, dies at 42
- Jul 9 Adrien Louis Boieldieu, French composer, dies at 67
- Jul 12 Hermann Zopff, German composer, dies at 57
- Jul 27 Albert Franz Doppler, Austrian flautist and composer, dies at 61
- Aug 27 August Friedrich Pott, German violinist, composer, and music professor, dies at 76
- Aug 30 Ángela Peralta, Mexican operatic soprano, harpist, pianist, and composer, dies of yellow fever at 38
- Oct 15 Francesco Schira, Maltese-born composer, dies at 74
- Oct 29 Robert Volkmann, German composer and pedagogue, dies at 68
- Oct 30 Johann Vesque von Püttlingen, Austrian lawyer and composer, dies at 80
- Nov 25 Ludwig Erk, German composer and folk song collector, dies at 76
- Dec 25 Marek Konrad Sokolowski, Polish guitarist and composer, dies at 65
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