1841. Anton Dvořák (Nelahozeves), 1841. The well-known composer, who has written works of the utmost importance in all styles, including chamber music.
1842. Victor Duvernoy (Paris), 1842. French composer and pianist, who, along with M. Leonard the violinist, established important chamber music soirées in Paris.
1843. Edvard H. Grieg (Bergen), 1843. Charming Norse composer. His piano and violin sonatas are well known, or should be.
1843. G. Sgambati (Rome), 1843. Italian composer, who has written some chamber music. Some laudatory expressions of Richard Wagner’s first drew attention to him.
1843. J.S. Shedlock (Reading), 1843. Musical critic and littérateur, who has also published some musical works. His articles on Beethoven’s Sketch Books, Cramer’s Piano Studies, with Beethoven’s notes, which he discovered; his work on the Sonata, and on Kuhnau’s Biblical Sonatas, are of great interest, bearing, as they do in part, on the subject of chamber music.
1844. Edward Dannreuther (Strasburg), 1844. Pianist and teacher, who resides in London. His influence has been of the highest value to the cause of chamber music in England.
1844. Rimsky-Korsakoff (Tichwin), 1844. Russian composer of distinction. His works include some interesting chamber music.
1844. Hugo Heeymann (Frankfurt), 1844. Violinist and leader of the quartett known by his name, one of the best in Germany.
1845. Friedrich Niecks (Düsseldorf), 1845. Professor of Music in the University of Edinburgh, where he has done much to promote the culture of chamber music.
1845. Gabriel Fauré (Pamiers), 1845. French composer, whose works include some chamber music.