1840s
- 1849 in music - Death of Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer and pianist
- 1848 in music - Death of Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer
- 1847 in music - "Oh! Susanna" by Stephen Foster published
- 1846 in music - Adolphe Sax invents the saxophone
- 1845 in music - Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner premières in Dresden
- 1844 in music – 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; The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner premieres in Dresden
- 1842 in music - "Lisztomania" sweeps Europe
- 1841 in music - Birth of Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer
- 1840 in music - Birth of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer; Death of Niccolò Paganini, Italian composer and ultra virtuoso violinist
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