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
Please address any comments concerning this page to
The Music Maestro
Mark Chard
BSc
Page created: 30th March 2011
Last edited: 15th July 2023