Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of
Births
1 January:
JAMES RYDER RANDALL
= American popular songwriter = [died: 1908]
9 January:
JOHN KNOWLES PAINE
= American-born composer and musicologist = [died: 1906]
2 March:
VICTORIA BUNDSEN
= Swedish opera singer = [died: 1909]
17 March:
JOSEF RHEINBERGER
= German composer = [died: 1901]
19 March:
GUSTAV ROGUSKI
= Polish composer and teacher of Mieczyslaw Karlowicz = [died: 1924]
21 March:
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
= Russian composer = [died: 1881]
12 April:
VICTORIN DE JONCIÈRES
= French composer and music critic = [died: 1903]
19 May:
ALICE MARY SMITH
= English composer = [died: 1884]
14 July:
SYDNEY SMITH
= English composer and pianist = [died: 1889]
24 August:
EDUARD NÁPRAVNÍK
= Czech composer = [died: 1916]
24 November:
JAMES WARREN YORK
= American businessman, musical instrument maker = [died: 1927]
Timeline of Musical Events
Undated:
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
conducts the first performance of
Franz Schubert's Great C Major Symphony
Awards
Prix de Rome - Charles Gounod
Published Popular Music
"Kathleen Mavourneen"
= lyrics by
ANNIE BARRY CRAWFORD
; music by
FREDERICK WILLIAM NICHOLLS CROUCH
Classical Music
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Piano Sonata No. 2 "Funeral March"
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
2 Preludes and Fugue for Organ
JOSEPH LANNER
Amazonen-Galopp
Malapou Galop
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Arabesque in C, Op. 18
Blumenstück (Flower Piece) in Dþ, Op. 19
Humoreske in Bþ, Op. 20
4 Nachtstücke (Night Pieces), Op. 23
Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
3 Romances, Op. 28 (Bþ minor, F♯, B)
LOUIS SPOHR
Concerto for Violin no 14 in A minor, Op. 110 "Sonst und Jetzt"
Opera
ALEXANDER DARGOMYZHSKY
Esmeralda
GAETANO DONIZETTI
L'ange de Nisida
GIUSEPPE LILLO
Il conte di Chalais
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio
Please address any comments concerning this page to
The Music Maestro
Mark Chard
BSc, PLY
Page created: 31st March 2011
Last edited: 20th July 2023