Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 15 January:   ALBERT NIEMANN = German operatic tenor = [died: 1917]
• 21 February:   HENRI MEILHAC = French opera librettist = [died: 1897]
• 26 February:   FILIPPO MARCHETTI = Italian opera composer = [died: 1902]
• 10 June:   SILVERIO FRANCONETTI = Spanish flamenco singer = [died: 1889]
• 28 June:   JOSEPH JOACHIM = Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher = [died: 1907]
• 7 July:   EUGÈNE KETTERER = French pianist and composer = [died: 1870]
• 1 August:   ANTONIO COTOGNI = Italian operatic baritone = [died: 1901]
• 13 August:   SALOMON JADASSOHN = German pianist, composer and a renowned teacher of piano and composition = [died: 1902]
• 28 August:   LUDVIG NORMAN = Swedish composer = [died: 1885]
• 10 December:   PHILIPPE GILLE = French opera librettist [died: 1901]


• date unknown:
• CARL KÖLLING = German composer for piano = [died: 1914]

Timeline of Musical Events

• Undated:
• FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN arrives in Paris.
• The first opera, Deux mots by NICOLAS DALAYRAC in performed in Oslo directed by AUGUST SCHRUMPF with AUGUSTA SMITH in the main part.
• EMILIE DA FONSECA is employed at Christiania Theatre.

Popular Music

• "Lord, Lead the Way the Saviour Went" (hymn) = lyrics & music by WILLIAM CROSSWELL

Classical Music

• FRANZ LACHNER
• Fragen
• FELIX MENDELSSOHN
• First Piano Concerto opus 25 (premiered October 17 in Munich)
• Die erste Walpurgisnacht, opus 60, first version
• GEORGE ONSLOW
• Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, opus 42

Opera

• VINCENZO BELLINI
• Norma
• La Sonnambula
• LOUIS JOSEPH FERDINAND HEROLD
• Zampa
• GIACOMO MEYERBEER
• Robert Le Diable