Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

26 February: FRANZ STRAUSS = German horn player and composer, father of Richard Strauss = [died: 1905]
28 February: NICOLAS MALINE = luthier = [died: 1877]
7 March: VICTOR MASSÉ = French composer = [died: 1884]
8 April: GIUSEPPE APOLLONI = Italian opera composer = [died: 1889]
25 April: JAMES PIERPONT = American songwriter, arranger, organist, and composer = [died: 1893]
27 May: JOACHIM RAFF = German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist = [died: 1882]
22 July: LUIGI ARDITI = Italian violinist, conductor and composer = [died: 1903]
15 August: WILHELM RUST = German musicologist and composer = [died: 1892]
13 October: CARL MARTIN REINTHALER = German organist, conductor and composer = [died: 1896]
14 October: JULIE BERWALD = Swedish concert and opera singer = [died: 1877]
15 October: KORNÉL ÁBRÁNYI = Hungarian pianist, music writer and theorist, and composer = [died: 1903]
3 December: KORLA AWGUST KOCOR = Sorbian conductor and composer = [died: 1904]
10 December: CÉSAR FRANCK = Belgian organist and composer = [died: 1890]
22 December: CHARLES LEBOUC = French cellist = [died: 1893]

GIULIO REGONDI = Italian classical guitarist, concertinist and composer = [died: 1872]

Timeline of Musical Events

16 March: Marriage of GIOACCHINO ROSSINI and Spanish soprano ISABELLA COLBRAN.

Official date of the invention of the accordion by CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH LUDWIG BUSCHMANN. (This has been thrown into doubt by the discovery of an accordion apparently manufactured in 1816.)
The Royal Academy of Music is founded.
JOHANN WENZEL KALLIWODA becomes musical director to Prince Karl Egon II of Furstenburg.
Harpist FRANZ STOCKHAUSEN marries soprano MARGARETHE SCHMUCK.

"Araby's Daughter" (song) = lyrics by THOMAS MOORE; music by GEORGE KIALLMARK. (The lyrics are derived from Moore's "Farewell to Araby's Daughter" published in 1817).