Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 25 April:   JEAN ANTOINE ZINNEN = Luxembourgian composer = [died: 1898]
• 20 August:   JOSEF STRAUSS = Austrian composer = [died: 1870]
• 5 September:   GOFFREDO MAMELI = Italian, lyricist of the Italian national anthem = [died: 1849]
• 12 November:   GUSTAV MERKEL = German organist and composer = [died: 1885]


• date unknown:
• MARTINO FRONTINI = Italian composer [died: 1909]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 13 April: 18-year-old soprano EUGENIA SAVORANI marries GIOVANNI TADOLINI, her 42-year-old singing teacher.


• Undated:
• FRANÇOIS DAUVERNÉ becomes the first musician to use the new F three valved trumpet in public performance.
• ROSSINI's mother dies, prompting his return home to Bologna.
• The term Gesamtkunstwerk is first used in print, in an essay by Eusebius Trahndorff; it is later adopted by RICHARD WAGNER.

Classical Music

• HECTOR BERLIOZ
• La mort d'Orphée
• FRANZ SCHUBERT
• Winterreise (song cycle)

Opera

• VINCENZO BELLINI
• Il Pirata
• MICHELE CARAFA
• Les Deux Figaro
• GIOVANNI PACINI
• Margherita regina d'Inghilterra