Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 2 January:   TOMASZ NAPOLEON NIDECKI = Polish composer = [died: 1852]
• 4 January:   BALTASAR SALDONI = Spanish composer = [died: 1889]
• 6 January:   LUDWIG ERK = German composer = [died: 1883]
• 6 February:   HANS MATTHISON-HANSEN = Danish composer = [died: 1890]
• 15 February:   IGNACY FELIKS DOBRZYNSKI = Polish symphonist composer = [died: 1867]
• 7 March:
• FRANZ GRAVE VON POCCI = German poet/composer (Der Alchemist) = [died: 1876]
• ADOLPH METHFESSEL = German composer = [died: 1878]
• 30 March:   HENRIK RUNG = Danish composer = [died: 1871]
• 11 May:   IRA ALDRIDGE = American Great 19th century black Shakespearian actor (Othello) = [died: 1867]
• 15 May:   LUIGI FERDINANDO CASAMORATA = Italian composer = [died: 1881]
• 2 June:   ROBERT FUHRER = Czech composer = [died: 1861]
• 6 June:   ADRIEN FRANCOIS SERVAIS = Belgian cellist and composer = [died: 1866]
• 11 September:   IGNAZ LACHNER = German composer = [died: 1895]
• 3 October:   HEINRICH PANOFKA = German violinist, composer, song writer and music teacher = [died: 1887]
• 21 October:
• HANRI REBER = French composer = [died: 1880]
• MIGUEL HILARION ESLAVA Y ELIZONDO = Spanish composer = [died: 1878]
• 16 November:   FRANCOIS HAINL = French cellist and composer = [died: 1873]


• date unknown:
• JOSEPH CASAVANT = French Canadian manufacturer of pipe organs = [died: 1874]
• JAMES P. CLARKE = British-Born Canadian composer = [died: 1877]

Timeline of Musical Events

• Undated:
• MUZIO CLEMENTI begins negotiating for British publication rights to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven

Published Popular Music

• THOMAS MOORE: Irish melodies (music by JOHN STEVENSON)

Classical Music

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• Mass in C
• JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
• Helene and Paris (ballet)

Opera

• ETIENNE-NICOLAS MEHUL
• Joseph
• Music by GASPARE SPONTINI and libretto by ETIENNE JOUY
• La Vestale (The Vestal Virgin) first performed in Paris.