Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 1 March:   ALEXEY NIKOLAYEVICH VERSTOVSKY = Russian composer = [died: 1862]
• 5 April:   VINCENZO FIORAVANTI = Italian composer = [died: 1877]
• 13 April:
• HEINRICH F L RELLSTAB = German music theorist = [died: 1860]
• JOSEPH RASTRELLI = German composer and conductor = [died: 1842]
• 23 May:   THOMAS HOOD = English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt) = [died: 1845]
• 27 May:   JACQUES-FRANÇOIS-FROMENTAL-ÉLLE HALÉVY, {ELIE LEVY} = French composer = [died: 1862]
• 5 June:   ALEXEY FYODOROVICH LVOV = Russian composer = [died: 1870]
• 4 August:   OLOF WILHELM UDDEN = Swedish composer = [died: 1868]
• 15 October:   AUGUST FERDINAND HAESER = German composer = [died: 1844]
• 31 October:   MARIA FEDERICA VON STEDINGK = Swedish composer = [died: 1868]
• 31 December:   THOMAS TAGLICHSBECK = German composer = [died: 1867]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 10 January: FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar
• 19 March: JOSEPH HAYDN's "Die Schopfung," premieres in Vienna
• 20 April: FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER's "Wallensteins Tod," premieres in Weimar


• Undated:
• Swiss composer JEAN BAPTISTE ÉDOUARD DU PUY is dismissed by King Gustav IV of Sweden for praising Napoleon.

Classical Music

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• Sonata Pathetique; Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Major Op. 14 No. 2
• JOSEPH HAYDN
• String Quartets Op. 77
• GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
• Sinfonia Funebre

Opera

• ÉTIENNE MÉHUL
• Adrien, Ariodant
• FERDINANDO PAER
• La Camila ossia il Sotteraneo
• ANTONIO SALIERI
• Falstaff o sia Le tre burle

Theatre Productions

• Opening: 15 April 1799 @ the Park Theatre, New York, NY
• THE ITALIAN FATHER [Original Broadway production]
  (Play, Comedy)
• Written by William Dunlap
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 13 May 1799 @ the Park Theatre, New York, NY
• KING HENRY VIII [Original Broadway production]
  (Play, History)
• Written by William Shakespeare
• Closing: date unknown