Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

12 January: PAUL "The Great" TAGLIONI = German born in Vienna, ballet choreographer = [died: 1884
4 February: JOSEF KAJETÁN TYL = Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem = [died: 1856]
9 February: FRANCESCO GOMEZ DA ROCHA = composer = [died: ????]
14 February: MICHAEL COSTA = Italian conductor and composer = [died: 1884]
15 March: GAETANO GASPARI = Italian composer = [died: 1881]
24 March: MARIA MALIBRAN = Spanish-French soprano = [died: 1836]
10 April: AUGUSTE FRANCHOMME = French composer = [died: 1884]
15 May:

17 May: CHARLES-LOUIS-ADOLPHE VOGEL = French composer = [died: 1892]
30 May: JOAQUIM CASIMIRO Jr = Portuguese composer and organist = [died: 1862]
24 June: ANNA CAROLINE OURY = German pianist and composer of French ancestry = [died: 1880]
28 July: CHARLES LUCAS = English cellist, conductor, composer and publisher. He was a Principal of the Royal Academy of Music = [died: 1869]
30 July: FREDERICK NICHOLS CROUCH = English composer and cellist = [died: 1896]
6 August: JOHANN CHRISTIAN GEBAUER = Danish composer, organist and music theorist = [died: 1884]
10 August: CARL FRIEDRICH WEITZMANN = German composer and Musicography = [died: 1880]
5 September: LOUIS CLAPISSON = composer and collector of old musical instruments, of French origin = [died: 1866]
1 October: FRYDERYK EDWARD SOBOLEWSKI = Polish-American violinist, composer, and conductor = [died: 1872]
24 October: ERNST FRIEDRICH RICHTER = German musical theorist, composer = [died: 1879]
17 November: ALBERICH ZWYSSIG = Swiss Cistercian monk who composed in 1841 the Swiss Psalm, the present Swiss national anthem = [died: 1854]
18 November: ANTOINE-AMABLE-ELIE ELWART = composer = [died: 1877]
26 December: ALBERT GRISAR = Belgian composer = [died: 1869]

Timeline of Musical Events

6 March: 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
27 March: JOSEPH HAYDNS oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna
13 April: WILLIAM HENRY LANE ("JUDA") perfects tap dance
30 September: Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire
22 December: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN puts on a marathon benefit concert in Vienna, including the first performances of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and the Choral Fantasy

"(Believe Me, if All) Those Endearing Young Charms" by THOMAS MOORE and Sir JOHN STEVENSON

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The Music Maestro Mark Chard BSc, PLY

Page created: 5th March 2011
Last edited: 18th June 2023