Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 26 February:   FRANZ KRENN = Austrian composer and music teacher = [died: 1897]
• 19 March:   JOHANNES VERHULST = Dutch conductor and composer = [died: 1891]
• 13 April:   WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT = English pianist and composer = [died: 1875]
• 26 April:   EUGÈNE ALBERT = Belgian woodwind instrument maker = [died: 1890]
• 4 September:   FRANÇOIS BAZIN = French opera composer = [died: 1878]
• 17 November:   AUGUST WILHELM AMBROS = Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent = [died: 1876]
• 24 November:   MATTEO SALVI = Italian composer = [died: 1887]
• 8 December:   EDVARD HELSTED = Danish composer = [died: 1900]


• date unknown:
• EDWARD EDWARDS = Welsh musician and composer = [died: 1897]

Timeline of Musical Events

• Undated:
• LOUISE REICHARDT becomes the first woman conductor when she takes charge of a performance of work by Handel in Lubeck.
• CARL MARIA VON WEBER is appointed Kappellmeister at Dresden.

Classical Music

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• Piano Sonata No. 28
• LUIGI CHERUBINI
• Requiem in C-minor
• FRANZ SCHUBERT
• Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen

Opera

• MICHELE CARAFA
• Gabriella di Vergy
• GAETANO DONIZETTI
• Il Pigmalione
• FERDINAND HÉROLD & FRANÇOIS ADRIEN BOIELDIEU
• Charles de France
• GIOACHINO ROSSINI
• Il Barbiere di Siviglia
• Otello
• CARLO SOLIVA
• La Testa di Bronzo