Events February 11 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris Robert Schumann's "year of song", in which he writes the two Liederkreis, Frauenliebe und -leben and Dichterliebe Popular music "The Old Arm Chair" w. Eliza Cook m. Henry Russell Opera "La Favourite" by Gaetano Donizetti "La Fille du Régiment" by Gaetano Donizetti Births May 7 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Deaths May 27 - Niccolo Paganini, violinist and composer