Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 18 January:   WILLIAM HENRY HAVERGAL = Anglican clergyman, writer, composer and hymn-writer = [died: 1870]
• 14 February:   WILLIAM CRATHERN = English composer of sacred and secular music = [died: circa. 1851]
• 27 February:   ELISABETH FRÖSSLIND = Swedish opera singer and actor at the Royal Swedish Opera and the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm = [died: 1861]
• 21 August:   PETER CASPER KROSSING = Danish composer = [died: 1838]
• 2 September:   CAROLINE RIDDERSTOLPE = Swedish composer and singer = [died: 1878]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 25 September: The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "black Mozart", loses his command and is imprisoned at Houdainville.


• Undated:
• NICCOLÒ PAGANINI debuts as a violin virtuoso at age 11

Classical Music

• JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK
• The Sufferings of the Queen of France
• JOSEPH HAYDN
• String Quartets, Opp. 71 & 74 "Apponyi"
• Variations in F minor
• PAVEL VRANICKY
• Concerto for Flute in D major, Op. 24

Opera

• FELICE ALESSANDRI
• Virginia
• SAMUEL ARNOLD
• The Mountaineers
• THOMAS ATTWOOD
• Ozmyn and Daraxa
• FRANÇOIS-ADRIEN BOÏELDIEU
• La fille coupable
• FRANCESCO GARDI
• Pirro
• JOHANN BAPTIST HENNEBERG
• Die Waldmänner
• ÉTIENNE MÉHUL
• Le jeune sage et le vieux fou