Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 1 January:
• SYDNEY NELSON = English composer = [died: 1862]
• VACLAV HORAK = Czech composer = [died: 1871]
• JOHANN KULIK = Czech luthier = [died: 1872]
• 14 January:   LUDWIG ALOIS FERDINAND KÖCHEL = Austrian musicologist and composer = [died: 1877]
• 16 April:   JOZEF STEFANI = Polish composer = [died: 1876]
• 6 May:   FERDINAND MARCUCCI = composer = [died: 1871]
• 10 May:   NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH TITOV = Russian composer = [died: 1875]
• 17 May:   CARL FRIEDRICH ZOLLNER = German composer = [died: 1860]
• 16 September:   JOZEF NOWAKOWSKI = Polish pianist, teacher and composer = [died: 1865]
• 4 November:   EDUARD BRENDLER = Swedish composer = [died: 1831]
• 6 November:   EDUARD GRELL = German composer = [died: 1886]
• 15 November:   GEORGE RODWELL = English composer = [died: 1852]
• 27 December:   JOHN GOSS = English organist and composer = [died: 1880]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 16 January: LUIGI CHERUBINI's opera, Les Deux Journées ("The Water Carrier"), debuts in Paris at the Salle Feydeau
• 2 April: First performance of LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN's 1st Symphony in C
• 9 July: Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in US
• 16 September: FRANÇOIS-ADRIEN BOÏELDIEU's opera, Le calife de Bagdad, opens at Paris's Salle Favart
• 24 November: WEBER's opera "Das Waldmadchen," premieres in Freiburg

Classical Music

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• Symphony No. 1
• Piano Concerto No. 3 (Composed; first performance 1803)

Opera

• LUIGI CHERUBINI
• Les deux journées
• WILLIAM REEVE
• Paul and Virginia