Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

23 January: FRANZ COMMER = German musicologist and composer = [died: 1887]
14 February: ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH DARGOMYZHSKY = Russian composer = [died: 1869]
16 February: SEMYON STEPANOVICH GULAK-ARTEMOVSKY = Russin composer = [died: 1873]
2 March: GEORGE ALEXANDER MACFARREN = English composer and musicologist = [died: 1887]
20 March: MATTHIAS KELLER = German hymn writer (O Farther un High) = [died: 1875]
15 May: STEPHEN HELLER = Hungarian pianist, teacher and composer of Jewish descent = [died: 1888]
22 May: RICHARD WAGNER = German composer, conductor, theatre director (Ring, Flying Dutchman) = [died: 1883]
5 June: PROSPER PHILIPPE CATHERINE SAINTON = French violinist, composer = [died: 1890]
28 July: ALBERTO MAZZUCATO = Italian composer, music teacher, and writer = [died: 1877]
19 August: WILLIAM HENRY FRY = American composer, music critic, and journalist = [died: 1864]
28 September: ANTON WALLERSTEIN, composer = [died: 1892]
8 October: CARL LUDWIG AMAND MANGOLD = German conductor and composer = [died: 1889]
10 October: GIUSEPPE VERDI = Italian composer = [died: 1901]
26 October: HENRY THOMAS SMART = English organist and composer = [died: 1879]
27 November: MICHELE PUCCINI = Italian composer = [died: 1864]
30 November: CHARLES-HENRI VALENTIN ALKAN = French composer = [died: 1888]
2 December: JACOB ROSENHAIM = composer = [died: 1894]
10 December: ERRICO PETRELLA = Italian opera composer = [died: 1877]
24 December: HENRY WELLINGTON GREATOREX = English composer = [died: 1858]
29 December: ETIENNE-JOSEPH SOUBRE = Belgian composer = [died: 1871]

Timeline of Musical Events

24 January: Musicians found the Philharmonic Society (later The Royal Philharmonic Society) to give the first public orchestral concerts in London.
8 March: 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic
8 December: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN's 7th Symphony in A, premieres

Undated:

LOUISE REICHARDT moves to Hamburg, where she opens the first public music school for women and conducts a women's choir.
FRANZ KROMMER succeeds LEOPOLD KOZELUCH as court composer to the Imperial Court of Austria.