1861 in music

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Tannhäuser scandal in Paris.
Giuseppe Verdi is elected a deputy in the first parliament of the new Italian nation.

"Abide With Me", w. Rev Henry Francis Lyte m. William Henry Monk (Words 1847)
"Alice, Where Art Thou", w. Wellington Guernsey m. Joseph Ascher
"Aura Lea", w. W. W. Fosdick m. George R. Poulton
"The Bonnie Blue Flag", w. Mrs Annie Chamber-Ketchum m. Harry MacCarthy
"Eternal Father, Strong To Save", w. William Whiting m. Rev. John Bacchus Dykes
"Go Down, Moses", trad spiritual
"Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty", w. Reginald Heber m. John Bacchus Dykes
"I'm Going Home to Dixie", w. Dan Emmett a. C. S. Grafully
"John Brown's Body", w. anon m. William Steffe
"Maryland, My Maryland", w. James Ryder Randall m. Walter de Mapers (Music "Mini est Propositum" 12th century)
"The Vacant Chair", w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick Root

February 21 - Pierre de Bréville, composer (d. 1949)
April 7 - Clara Novello Davies, singer, conductor and music teacher (d. 1943)
May 19 - Nellie Melba, operatic soprano (d. 1931)
June 15 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, operatic contralto (d. 1936)
June 17 - Sidney Jones, composer of musical comedies (d. 1946)
June 27 - Fanny Davies, pianist (d. 1934)
August 11 - Anton Arensky, pianist and composer (d. 1906)
December 5 - James Thornton, English-born US songwriter and vaudeville comedian (d. 1938)
December 18 - Lionel Monckton, English composer 9d. 1924)
date unknown
- Camille D'elmar, opera singer (d. 1902)
- Giuseppe Fiorini, musical instrument maker (d. 1934)
- Sigismund Zaremba, composer (d. 1915)

January 17 - Lola Montez, dancer (b. 1821)
January 22 - Giovanni Velluti, castrato singer (b. 1780)
February 12 - Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
February 20 - Eugène Scribe, librettist (b. 1791)
March 14 - Louis Niedermeyer, composer (b. 1802)
August 9 - Vincent Novello, composer and music publisher (b. 1781)
October 24 - Elisabeth Frösslind, opera singer (b. 1793)
December 14 - Heinrich Marschner, composer (b. 1795)
December 16 - Karol Lipiński, violinist and composer (b. 1790)
December 18 - Ernst Anschütz, organist, composer and poet (b. 1780)
December 25 - Natale Abbadia, composer (b. 1792)
date unknown - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer (b. 1781)