Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 22 January:   JOSEF LEOPOLD ZVONAR = Czech composer, music teacher and critic = [died: 1865]
• 2 March:   BEDRICH SMETANA = Czech composer = [died: 1884]
• 7 March:   ROBERT AMBROSE = Canadian organist and composer of English birth = [died: 1908]
• 22 April:   RICHARD WÜERST = German composer and music teacher = [died: 1881]
• 13 June:   JULIUS EICHBERG = German-born composer = [died: 1893]
• 23 June:   CARL REINECKE = German pianist, conductor and composer = [died: 1910]
• 1 August:   JOHN P. ORDWAY = American doctor, composer, music entrepreneur, and politician = [died: 1880]
• 4 September:   ANTON BRUCKNER = Austrian composer = [died: 1896]
• 8 September:   JAIME NUNÓ = Catalan, composer of the Mexican national anthem = [died: 1908]
• 25 November:   ANTONIO GHISLANZONI = Italian librettist = [died: 1893]
• 27 December:   CHARLOTTA NORBERG = Swedish ballerina = [died: 1892]


• date unknown:
• FRANÇOIS XAVIER BAZIN = French bow-maker = [died: 1865]
• VELVEL ZBARJER = Galician Jew, brody singer = [died: 1884]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 7 May: First performance of BEETHOVEN's 9th Symphony.
• 21 June: FRANZ LISZT makes his London debut. Muzio Clementi is among the audience.

Popular Music

• "The Song of the Western Men" = lyrics & music by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER

Classical Music

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• Missa Solemnis
• HECTOR BERLIOZ
• Messe solennelle
• FANNY HENSEL
• Sonata for Piano in C minor
• FRANZ SCHUBERT
• Octet; String Quartets in A minor and D minor (Death and the Maiden Quartet)

Opera

• GAETANO DONIZETTI
• L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
• FRIEDRICH KUHLAU
• Lulu
• GIACOMO MEYERBEER
• Il crociato in Egitto
• WALDEMAR THRANE
• Fjeldeventyret (The mountain adventure)