Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 21 February:   LÉO DELIBES = French composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage = [died: 1891]
• 22 February:   MITROFAN BELYAYEV = Russian music publisher = [died: 1904]
• 21 March:   BERTHA TAMMELIN = Swedish musician, somposer and singer = [died: 1915]
• 29 June:   THOMAS PHILANDER RYDER = American composer, organist, teacher, conductor, and organ builder = [died: 1887]
• 27 October:   LUIGI HUGUES = Italian geographer, flautist and composer = [died: 1913]
• 28 October:   ELIAKUM ZUNSER = Lithuanian Jewish Yiddish songwriter = [died: 1925]
• 18 November:   W. S. GILBERT = English dramatist, poet and librettist = [died: 1911]
• 2 December:   GIUSEPPE DONATI = Italian inventor of the ocarina = [died: 1925]


• date unknown:
• TANBURI ALI EFENDI = Turkish tanbur virtuoso and composer = [died: 1902]

Timeline of Musical Events

• July: Soprano MARIA MALIBRAN is seriously injured in a riding accident, but refuses to see a doctor; she dies later in the year at the age of 28.
• 24 November: RICHARD WAGNER marries CHRISTINE WILHELMINE "MINNA" PLANER.


• Undated:
• SAVERIO MERCADANTE is invited to Paris by GIOACCHINO ROSSINI.

Publications

• JOHN ADDISON = Singing Practically Treated in a Series of Instructions

Classical Music

• WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT
• Overture to The Naiads
• FANNY MENDELSSOHN
• Frühzeitiger Frühling
• FELIX MENDELSSOHN
• St Paul (oratorio)
• ROBERT SCHUMANN
• Fantasie in C

Opera

• ADOLPHE ADAM
• Le Postillon de Longjumeau
• LOUISE BERTIN
• La Esmeralda (with libretto by Victor Hugo)
• GAETANO DONIZETTI
• Belisario
• MIKHAIL GLINKA
• A Life for the Tsar
• GIACOMO MEYERBEER
• Les Huguenots