Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 29 February:   GIOACCHINO ROSSINI = Italian composer = [died: 1868]
• 11 March:   NATALE ABBADIA = Italian composer = [died: 1861]
• 28 August:   KAROLINA BOCK = Swedish singer, actress, dancer, drama teacher = [died: 1872]
• 2 October:   CIPRIANI POTTER = British pianist and composer = [died: 1871]
• 13 October:   MORITZ HAUPTMANN = German writer and composer = [died: 1868]


• date unknown:
• MATTEO CARCASSI = Italian guitarist and composer = [died: 1853]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 13 April: JOSEPH MARTIN KRAUS's Symphonie funèbre is played at the funeral of Gustavus III of Sweden.
• 11-13 July: The Belfast Harp Festival is held in Ireland, organised by Dr. JAMES McDONNELL, ROBERT BRADSHAW and HENRY JOY McCRACKEN.

Published Popular Music

• "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" aka "La Marseillaise" by CLAUDE JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE
• "The Irish Washerwoman" trad. Irish

Classical Music

• JOSEPH HAYDN
• Surprise Symphony
• JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
• Trio for piano, violin and cello, no 1

Opera

• MARIA THERESIA AHLEFELDT
• Telemak pâ Calypsos
• DOMENICO CIMAROSA
• Il Matrimonio Segreto
• GIUSEPPE FARINELLI
• I dotorato di Pulcinella
• LOUIS EMMANUEL JADIN
• Amélie de Montfort
• ETIENNE MÉHUL
• Stratonice