1844 in music
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Events
- November 25 – The Bohemian Girl music by Michael William Balfe and libretto by Alfred Bunn has its American premiere at the Park Theatre, New York.
Popular music
- "Open Thy Lattice, Love" w. George P. Morris m. Stephen Collins Foster
- "Skip To My Lou" Trad. US
Classical music
- Spring Song m. Felix Mendelssohn
- Wedding March m. Felix Mendelssohn from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Opera
- Friedrich Flotow – Alessandro Stradella
- Giuseppe Verdi – Hernani
Births
- February 21 – Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer
- March 18 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
Deaths
- April 8 – Ignaz Franz von Mosel
- unknown date – Francis Johnson, black composer and band-leader
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