Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 6 January:   HENRI HERZ = Austrian pianist and composer = [died: 1888]
• 20 February:   FRIEDRICH THEODOR FROHLICH = Belgian composer = [died: 1836]
• 2 April:   FRANZ PAUL LACHNER = Bavarian composer/conductor = [died: 1890]
• 27 April:   ALFRED JULIUS BECHER = German critic and composer = [died: 1848]
• 7 May:   JOHAN PETER CRONHAMM = composer = [died: 1875]
• 8 May:   JOSEPH NAPOLEON NEY MOSKOVA = French composer = [died: 1857]
• 24 June:   GEORGE JAMES WEBB = English composer = [died: 1887]
• 20 July:   JAKOB ZEUGHEER = Swiss violinist, conductor and composer = [died: 1865]
• 23 July:   JOHANN VESQUE VON PUTTLINGEN = Austrian composer = [died: 1883]
• 24 July:   ADOLPHE ADAM = French composer = [died: 1856]
• 3 August:   JOSEPH PAXTON = English landscape architect (Crystal Palace) = [died: 1865]
• 3 September:   ALEXANDER L'VOVICH GURILYOV = Russian composer = [died: 1858]
• 4 September:   ANNA NIELSEN = Danish mezzo-soprano = [died: 1856]
• 12 September:   FRANTISEK MATEJ HILMAR = Czech composer = [died: 1881]
• 11 December:   HECTOR BERLIOZ = French composer = [died: 1869]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 4 February: WILLIAM DUNLAP, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature"
• 19 March: JOHANN VON SCHILLERS "Die Braut von Messina", premieres in Weimar
• 5 April:
• First performance of BEETHOVEN's 2nd Symphony in D
• First performance of BEETHOVEN's third piano concerto
• 26 December: HAYDN performs his last public concert, conducting The Seven Last Words of Christ

Classical Music

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• Christus am Olberge, oratorio
• Piano Sonata No. 21 'Waldstein' started
• Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
• Violin Sonata No. 7 published, composed between 1801 and 1802
• Violin Sonata No. 9
• BERNHARD HENRIK CRUSELL
• Concerto for Clarinet no 3 in B flat major
• JOSEPH HAYDN
• unfinished String Quartet in D minor, Op 103
• FRANZ KROMMER
• Concerto for Oboe in F Major (op 37)
• GEORG VON PASTERWITZ
• 300 Themata und Versetten, op. 4
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA VIOTTI
• Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in E major
• Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in G major

Opera

• GAETANO ANDREOZZI
• Il trionpho di Alessandro
• LUIGI CHERUBINI
• Anacreon
• ANTON FISCHER
• Die Entlarvten
• GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
• Proserpine