Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

11 January: JOHN LODGE ELLERTON = English composer = [died: 1873]
21 January: RAMON VILANOVA Y BARRERA = Spanish composer = [died: 1870]
29 January: JOHANNES BERNARDUS VAN BREE = Dutch violinist/composer (Felix Meritis) = [died: 1857]
1 February: ADOLF FREDRIK LINDBLAD = Swedish composer = [died: 1878]
21 February: JAN KALIVODA = Bohemian composer, conductor and violinist = [died: 1866]
26 March: SOPHIE DAGUIN = French ballerina and choreographer = [died: 1881]
28 March: ADRIEN DE LA FAGE = French composer and musicologist = [died: 1862]
12 April: JOSEF FRANZ KARL LANNER = Austrian composer/violist = [died: 1843]
3 June: FRANTISEK JAN SKROUP = Czech composer and conductor = [died: 1862]
12 July: JOHN HILL HEWITT = American songwriter, playwright, and poet = [died: 1890]
12 September: GIUSEPPE CONCONE; Italian singing-teacher = [died: 1861]
7 October: ADOLF MULLER = Hungarian composer = [died: 1886]
23 October: GUSTAV ALBERT LORTZING = German composer = [died: 1851]
28 October: KARL GEORG LICKL = Austrian composer = [died: 1877]
3 November: VINCENZO BELLINI = Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma) = [died: 1835]
27 November: ALEXANDER EGOROVICH VARLAMOV = Russian composer = [died: 1848]
15 December: AUGUST FREYER= Polish composer, organist and professor of music = [died: 1883]
23 December: MARCO AURELIO ZANI DE FERRANTI = Italian composer = [died: 1878]

Timeline of Musical Events

28 March: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN's ballet, Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus premieres in Vienna's Burgtheater
11 April: JOHANN VON SCHILLER's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans," premieres in Leipzig
24 April: The first performance of JOSEPH HAYDN's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten", The Seasons