Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 3 January:   JACQUES-NICOLAS LEMMENS = Belgian organist and composer = [died: 1881]
• 27 January:   ÉDOUARD LALO = French composer = [died: 1892]
• 6 March:   MARIETTA ALBONI = Italian operatic contralto = [died: 1894]
• 14 August:   KAREL MIRY = Belgian composer = [died: 1889]
• 17 August:   THEODOR JULIUS JAFFÉ = German opera singer and actor = [died: 1898]
• 26 November:   THOMAS TELLEFSEN = Norwegian pianist and composer = [died: 1874]
• 1 December:   ERNEST REYER = French opera composer and music critic = [died: 1909]


• date unknown:
• JOHN DIAMOND = Irish-American dancer and minstrel = [died: 1857]
• KURMANGAZY SAGYRBAYULY = Kazakh folk musician and composer = [died: 1896]

Timeline of Musical Events

• Undated:
• FRANZ LISZT leaves Vienna for Paris.
• GIOACHINO ROSSINI arrives in London and is presented to King George IV.
• HECTOR BERLIOZ writes to the journal Le Corsaire defending GASPARE SPONTINI's opera La Vestale
• The arpeggione is invented by Viennese guitar maker JOHANN GEORG STAUFER.

Popular Music

• "Home, Sweet Home" = lyrics & music by JOHN HOWARD PAYNE

Publications

• EMANUEL ALOYS FÖRSTER: Anleitung zum General-Baß

Classical Music

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• Diabelli Variations, Opus 120
• Missa Solemnis Opus 123.
• FRANZ KROMMER
• Symphony No. 6 in D
• FELIX MENDELSSOHN
• Concerto for 2 pianos
• FERDINAND RIES
• Cello Sonata in G minor, Opus 125
• FRANZ SCHUBERT
• Die Schöne Müllerin

Opera

• GAETANO DONIZETTI
• Alfredo il grande
• GIOACHINO ROSSINI
• Semiramide
• FRANZ SCHUBERT
• Fierrabras
• CARL MARIA VON WEBER
• Euryanthe