See also: 1838 in music, other events of 1839, 1840 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

• Felix Mendelssohn gives the first performance of Franz Schubert's Great C Major Symphony

Classical Music

• Josef Lanner - Amazonen-Galopp; Malapou Galop
• Robert Schumann:
• Arabesque in C, Op. 18 1839
• Blumenstück (Flower Piece) in Db, Op. 19 1839
• Humoreske in Bb, Op. 20 1839
• 4 Nachtstücke (Night Pieces), Op. 23 1839
• Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 1839
• 3 Romances, Op. 28 (bb, F#, B)
• Louis Spohr - Concerto for Violin no 14 in A minor, Op. 110 "Sonst und Jetzt"

Opera

• Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky - Esmeralda

Published popular music

• "Kathleen Mavourneen " w. Annie Barry Crawford m. Frederick William Nicholls Crouch

Births

• January 19 - Bohumil Pazdirek
• March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky

Deaths

• April 20 - Giuseppe Rossini , father of the composer Gioacchino Rossini
• July 8 - Fernando Sor
• unknown date - Ferdinand Paer
• unknown date - Charles Stokes