Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

1 February: MARIE CARANDINI = English-born opera singer = [died: 1894]
16 February: FRANZ VON HOLSTEIN = German composer = [died: 1878]
14 March: WILLIAM FISK SHERWIN = American composer = [died: 1888]
23 March: LÉON MINKUS = Austrian composer = [died: 1917]
7 April: JOHANN HERMANN BERENS = German pianist and composer = [died: 1880]
28 April: ALEXANDER STADTFELD = German composer = [died: 1853]
1 June:

4 July: STEPHEN FOSTER = American songwriter = [died: 1864]
8 July: FRIEDRICH CHRYSANDER = German music historian = [died: 1901]
22 July: JULIUS STOCKHAUSEN = German singer and music teacher = [died: 1906]
13 August: WILLIAM THOMAS BEST = English organist = [died: 1897]
24 August: EDWARD MACK = German songwriter = [died: 1882]
28 August: WALTER CECIL MACFARREN = English chorister in Westminster Abbey and composer for piano = [died: 1905]
13 October: JOHANNA JACHMANN-WAGNER = German operatic mezzo-soprano = [died: 1894]
14 October: GEORGES MATHIAS = French composer and pianist = [died: 1910]
16 October: PIOTR STUDZINSKI = Polish composer = [died: 1869]
22 October: GUGLIELMO QUARENGHI = Italian cellist and composer = [died: 1882]
21 December: ERNST PAUER = Austrian pianist and composer = [died: 1905]

Timeline of Musical Events

21 March: BEETHOVEN's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna
12 April: WEBER's opera "Oberon," premieres in London
22 October: The Bowery Theatre opened under the name New York Theatre

"The Old Oaken Bucket" = lyrics by SAMUEL WOODWORTH; music by GEORGE F. KIALLMARK. (Words written in 1817)
"Shenandoah (Across The Wide Missouri)" = TRADITIONAL, US