Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 23 January:   IVAN LARIONOV = Russian composer = [died: 1889]
• 11 February:   PETER ARNOLD HEISE = Danish composer = [died: 1879]
• 13 April:   EDUARD LASSEN = Belgian composer and conductor of Danish birth = [died: 1904]
• 18 May:   KARL GOLDMARK = Hungarian composer = [died: 1915]
• 22 June:   THEODOR LESCHETIZKY = Polish pianist, professor and composer = [died: 1915]
• 31 July:   FRANTIŠEK ZDENĚK SKUHERSKÝ = Czech composer and teacher = [died: 1892]
• 13 August:   GUSTAV LANGE = German composer = [died: 1889]


• date unknown:
• IGNAZ DORN = Austrian composer, violinist and conductor = [died: 1872]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 20 July: Pittville Pump Room was officially opened
• October: MARIA MALIBRAN, MARGARETHE STOCKHAUSEN and CHARLES DE BÉRIOT tour the British Midlands.
• 2 November: FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN, aged twenty, leaves Warsaw for Austria.


• Undated:
• FELIX MENDELSSOHN arrives in Italy.
• The Royal Academy of Music is granted a charter by King George IV of the United Kingdom.
• CHARLES LUCAS is appointed official composer and cellist to Queen Adelaide.

Classical Music

• FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
• Revolutionary Étude
• GEORGE ONSLOW
• Symphony No. 1 in A Major
• HECTOR BERLIOZ
• Symphonie Fantastique

Opera

• DANIEL AUBER
• Fra Diavolo first performed in Paris. Libretto by Eugène Scribe.
• VINCENZO BELLINI
• La Capuleti e i Montecchi (Venice)
• GAETANO DONIZETTI
• Anna Bolena first performed in Milan. Libretto by Felice Romani.
• JACQUES-FRANÇOIS-FROMENTAL-ELIE HALÉVY
• Attendre et courir
• LOUIS JOSEPH FERDINAND HEROLD
• L'Auberge d'Auray