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| 1839 |
| | | Polish composer Frédéric Chopin completes his Preludes under difficult conditions in Majorca | |
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| 1840 |
| | | Robert Schumann composes the song cycle Frauenliebe und -Leben ('Woman's Love and Life') | |
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| 1840 |
| | | Robert Schumann marries the pianist Clara Wieck, daughter of his first teacher | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The success of the opera Nabucco, premiered in Milan, is a turning point in the fortunes of Giuseppe Verdi | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Edwin Pearce Christy launches the Virginia Minstrels, later to become America's most popular minstrel show under the name Christy's Minstrels | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The Flying Dutchman is the first of Richard Wagner's major operas to be staged, with its premiere in Dresden | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Mendelssohn's overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, amplified now with incidental music, is greeted as a masterpiece at a performance of the play in Potsdam | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah has its premiere in England, in the city of Birmingham | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Oh! Susannah is in the first published collection of popular songs by Stephen Collins Foster | |
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| 1849 |
| | | In Vienna the younger Johann Strauss succeeds his father as the Waltz King | |
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