Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 24 January:   WILLIAM MASON = American pianist and composer = [died: 1908]
• 6 March:   HEINRICH LICHNER = German composer = [died: 1898]
• 8 May:   LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK = American pianist and composer = [died: 1869]
• 9 May:   CIRO PINSUTI = Anglo-Italian pianist and composer = [died: 1888]
• 9 June:   GAETANO BRAGA = Italian cellist and composer = [died: 1907]
• 11 June:   HORACE POUSSARD = French violinist and composer = [died: 1898]
• 21 August:   OTTO GOLDSCHMIDT = German pianist, conductor and composer = [died: 1907]
• 25 August:   CARLO ACTON = Italian pianist and composer = [died: 1909]
• 28 August:   ALBERT DIETRICH = German composer = [died: 1908]
• 28 November:   ANTON RUBINSTEIN = Russian pianist, conductor and composer = [died: 1894]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 29 December: Soprano EUGENIA TADOLINI makes a house debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma.


• Undated:
• FELIX MENDELSSOHN conducts Bach's St Matthew Passion at Berlin
• FREDERIC CHOPIN concludes his studies at the music academy at Warsaw which will later be named after him.

Classical Music

• NORBERT BURGMULLER
• Piano Concerto in F sharp
• FANNY HENSEL
• Capriccio for Cello and Piano in A flat major

Opera

• MICHAEL WILLIAM BALFE
• I rivali di se stessi
• GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
• Guillaume Tell (William Tell) first performed in Paris. Libretto by Etienne de Jouy, Florent Bis and Armand Marrast.