Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 2 January:   MILY BALAKIREV, Russian pianist, conductor and composer [died: 1910]
• 12 January:   ADOLF JENSEN, German pianist, composer and music teacher [died: 1879]
• 13 April:   JULIUS WEISSENBORN, German bassoonist, music teacher and composer [died: 1888]
• 30 July:   SIGNE HEBBE = Swedish operatic soprano = [died: 1925]
• 24 August:   THÉODORE DUBOIS = French organist and composer = [died: 1924]
• 9 December:   EMILE WALDTEUFEL = French composer = [died: 1915]
• 25 December:   COSIMA WAGNER = German daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner = [died: 1930]
• 30 December:   IDA MARIE LIPSIUS = German music writer = [died: 1927]


• date unknown:
• KATE SANTLEY = German-born actress, singer and comedienne = [died: 1923]
• LA SERNETA = Spanish flamenco singer = [died: 1910]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 11 June: Prussian Copyright Act protecting for the first time performances of concert music


• Undated:
• PAULINE VIARDOT (as PAULINE GARCIA) makes her concert debut at the age of sixteen.

Published Popular Music

• "Hark, Brothers, Hark" = lyrics & music by JOHN HILL HEWITT
• "Woodman, Spare That Tree!" = lyrics by GEORGE POPE MORRIS; music by HENRY RUSSELL

Classical Music

• HECTOR BERLIOZ
• Grande Messe des Morts
• FELIX MENDELSSOHN
• String Quartet #4 in E minor

Opera

• DANIEL AUBER
• The Black Domino (with libretto by EUGÈNE SCRIBE)
• GAETANO DONIZETTI
• Roberto Devereux
• ALBERT LORTZING
• Zar und Zimmermann
• GASPARE SPONTINI
• Agnes von Hohenstaufen