Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

14 January: FELIX OTTO DESSOFF = German conductor and composer = [died: 1892]
23 January: AUGUST LANNER = Austrian composer = [died: 1855]
24 February: JOHN HENRY MARTIN = German band instrument manufacturer = [died: 1910]
15 March: EDUARD STRAUSS = Austrian composer = [died: 1916]
24 March: AUGUST WINDING = Danish composer = [died: 1899]
10 July: HENRYK WIENIAWSKI = Polish violinist and composer = [died: 1880]
20 August: OSCAR STOUMON = Belgian music critic and composer = [died: 1900]
7 October: FELIX DRAESEKE = German composer = [died: 1913]
9 October: CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS = French composer = [died: 1921]
25 November: JOSEPH GLÆSER = Danish organist and composer = [died: 1891]
1 December: CARL JOHAN FRYDENSBERG = Danish composer = [died: 1904]

Timeline of Musical Events

2 January: The Neue Leipziger Zeitschrift für Musik, edited by ROBERT SCHUMANN, changes its name to Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
25 January: HECTOR BERLIOZ becomes resident music critic for the Journal des Débats.
4 May: SAMUEL SEBASTIAN WESLEY, son of the composer SAMUEL WESLEY, grandson of CHARLES WESLEY, and organist of Hereford Cathedral, elopes with and marries MARY ANNE MEREWETHER, sister of the cathedral's dean.
4 June: FRANZ LISZT joins his mistress, MARIE D'AGOULT, in Basel, Switzerland.
8 July: DAN EMMETT is discharged from the US Army and begins his career as a blackface banjoist and singer.
October: Contralto CLORINDA CORRADI relocates to Havana, Cuba.
9 November: At a concert in Johann Sebastian Bach's home city of Leipzig, FELIX MENDELSSOHN, CLARA WIECK and LOUIS RAKEMAN perform Bach's Concerto in D minor for three keyboards and orchestra.
28 November: 25-year-old ROBERT SCHUMANN and 16-year-old CLARA WIECK begin their romance.
14 December: The St James's Theatre, London, opens with an "operatic burletta", Agnes Sorel.

Soprano FANNY CORRI-PALTONI makes her last known stage appearance, at Alessandria in Italy.
ROSSINI completes 'Les soirées musicales' which includes La Danza
The Bowery Amphitheatre is created in the neighborhood of New York City