Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

23 February: GEORGE WASHINGTON HEWITT = American composer and Music Teacher = [died: 1893]
25 February: CARL SCHUBERTH = composer = [died: 1863]
7 March: CHRISTIAN HEINRICH HOHMANN = German/Frankish composer, music teacher and author violin school = [died: 1861]
23 March:

CAMILLE MARIE STAMATY = French pianist, piano teacher and composer predominantly of piano music and studies = [died: 1870]
CARL GOTTFRIED WILHELM TAUBERT = German pianist, composer, and conductor = [died: 1891]

30 March: ANGELO CATELANI = Italian composer/conductor and musicologist = [died: 1866]
17 April: ANN SHEPPARD MOUNSEY = English pianist, organist and composer = [died: 1891]
19 July: VINCENZ LACHNER = German composer and conductor = [died: 1893]
5 August: AMBROISE THOMAS = French opera composer = [died: 1896]
15 September: JAN NEPOMUK ŠKROUP = Czech composer, conductor, and choirmaster = [died: 1892]
16 October: GAETANO CAPOCCI = Italian composer, organist and maestro = [died: 1898]
22 October: FRANZ LISZT = Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher = [died: 1886]
24 October: FERDINAND HILLER = German composer, conductor, writer and music-director = [died: 1885]
10 November: LOUIS KUFFERATH = German composer = [died: 1882]
13 November: YURI ARNOLD = Russian composer, musicologist, music critic, choral conductor, theorist and music educator = [died: 1898]
8 December: LOUIS ALEXANDER BALTHASAR SCHINDELMEISSER = German clarinetist, conductor and composer = [died: 1864]

Timeline of Musical Events

26 December: A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.