Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 6 January:   MAX BRUCH = German composer = [died: 1920]
• 9 July:   PHILIP BLISS = American composer, conductor, bass-baritone, writer of hymns and a Gospel singer = [died: 1876]
• 25 October:   GEORGES BIZET = French composer = [died: 1875]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 7 March: JENNY LIND, the "Swedish Nightingale" debuts at the Stockholm Opera


• Undated:
• GIOVANNI RICORDI buys GIUSEPPE VERDI's copyrights.
• FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN begins his affair with GEORGE SAND.

Popular Music

• "Annie Laurie" = lyrics (1688) by WILLIAM DOUGLAS; music by Lady JOHN SCOTT (ALICIA ANN SPOTTISWOODE)
• "'Tis Home Where'er the Heart Is" = lyrics by ROBERT DALE OWEN; music by JOHN HILL HEWITT

Classical Music

• FRANZ LACHNER
• Frauenliebe und-leben
• ROBERT SCHUMANN
• Kinderszenen, Op. 15
• WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT
• Piano Concerto No. 4 op. 19

Opera

• HECTOR BERLIOZ
• Benvenuto Cellini
• AIBERT GRISAR
• Lady Melvil