Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

18 January: ERNST RUDORFF = German composer and music teacher = [died: 1918]
2 February: LOUIS-ALBERT BOURGAULT-DUCOUDRAY = French Breton pianist and composer = [died: 1910]
12 February: PHILIPPE DECKER = Luxembourgian composer and conductor = [died: 1881]
8 March: FRANCO FACCIO = Italian conductor and composer = [died: 1891]
12 April: FRANZ XAVER HABERL = German musicologist = [died: 1910]
7 May: PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY = Russian composer = [died: 1893]
9 May: BLANCHE D'ANTIGNY = French singer and actress = [died: 1874]
1 August: FRANZ SIMANDL = Czech double-bassist and teacher = [died: 1912]
28 August: IRA D. SANKEY = American gospel singer and composer = [died: 1908]
14 September: GEORGE WHITING = American composer = [died: 1923]
30 September: JOHAN SVENDSEN = Norwegian violinist, conductor and composer = [died: 1911]
18 October: ROBERTO STAGNO = Italian operatic tenor = [died: 1897]
November: CÉLESTINE MARIÉ = French operatic mezzo-soprano, the original Carmen = [died: 1905]
7 December: HERMANN GOETZ = German composer = [died: 1876]
17 December: C. F. E. HORNEMAN = Danish composer = [died: 1906]

Timeline of Musical Events

11 February: GAETANO DONIZETTI's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris.
9 June: FRANZ LISZT gives the first piano recital, in London's Hanover Square Rooms.
12 September: ROBERT SCHUMANN marries CLARA WIECK.

ROBERT SCHUMANN's "year of song", in which he writes the two Liederkreis, Frauenliebe und -leben and Dichterliebe.
The first harmonium is built.
Schindler's biography of Ludwig van Beethoven is published.
MICHELE CARAFA becomes Professor of Counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire.
ÉDOUARD BATISTE and FRANÇOIS BAZIN share the Prix de Rome.