Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 3 January:   HENRIETTE SONTAG = German operatic soprano = [died: 1854]
• 19 January:   VACLAV JINDRICH VEIT = Czech composer = [died: 1864]
• 27 January:   JUAN CRISÓSTOMO ARRIAGA, "the Spanish Mozart" = Spanish composer = [died: 1826]
• 26 March:   JOSEF SLAVIK = Czech violinist and composer = [died: 1833]
• 18 April:   LUDWIG SCHUBERTH = German composer = [died: 1850]
• 26 April:   LUDWIG FRIEDRICH HETSCH = composer = [died: 1872]
• 8 May:   JAN BEDRICH KITTL = Czech composer = [died: 1868]
• 27 May:   CHARLES-JOSEPH TOLBECQUE = composer = [died: 1835]
• 2 June:   ISAAC STRAUSS = French composer = [died: 1888]
• 23 July:   EDUARD MARXSEN = German pianist, composer and teacher = [died: 1887]
• 17 August:   JOHANN KASPAR MERTZ = Hungarian guitarist and composer = [died: 1856]
• 21 August:   JOHANNES FREDERICK FROHLICH = Danish violinist, conductor and composer = [died: 1860]
• 2 September:   JOSEF GUSIKOV = Polish/Belarusian klezmer musician = [died: 1837]
• 13 September:   MORITZ GANZ = composer = [died: 1868]
• 24 September:   GEORGE ALEXANDER OSBORNE = Irish composer and pianist = [died: 1893]
• 6 October:   ANDREAS RANDEL = Swedish composer and violinist = [died: 1864]
• 4 November:   ANDERS SELINDER = Swedish dancer, Ballet master, choreographer and director = [died: 1874]
• 7 November:   AUGUST FRIEDRICH POTT = composer = [died: 1883]
• 4 December:   JOHANN FRIEDRICH FRANZ BURGMÜLLER = German pianist and composer = [died: 1874]
• 6 December:   LOUIS-GILBERT DUPREZ = French composer = [died: 1896]

Timeline of Musical Events

• Undated:
• CARL CZERNY publishes his first composition at the age of 15.
• The marimba is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.
• JOHANN SIMON MAYR founds a new music school at Bergamo, Italy. GAETANO DONIZETTI is one of its first pupils.
• Marcussen & Søn, Danish organ-building firm, founded.
• The poem Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is published in Rhymes for the Nursery; it would later be made into a popular song of the same name.

Classical Music

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• Symphony No 4
• Piano Concerto No 4
• Violin Concerto
• 3 String Quartets, Op 59
• JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
• 7 Hungarian Dances
• 12 Minuets

Opera

• ETIENNE MEHUL
• Uthal