Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

4 February: ARRIGO BOITO = Italian poet and composer = [died: 1918]
10 March: MYKOLA LYSENKO = Ukrainian composer = [died: 1912]
22 March: CARL ROSA = German-born musical impresario = [died: 1889]
4 April: GOTTFRIED ESCHENBACH = German violist, conductor and composer = [died: 1920]
14 April: SVEN AUGUST KÖRLING = Swedish composer of art songs = [died: 1919]
3 May: SOPHUS HAGEN = Danish composer = [died: 1929]
12 May: JULES MASSENET = French opera composer = [died: 1912]
13 May: ARTHUR SULLIVAN = English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry = [died: 1900]
14 May: ALPHONS CZIBULKA = Austro-Hungarian military bandmaster, composer, pianist, and conductor = [died: 1894]
12 June: RIKARD NORDRAAK = Norwegian composer = [died: 1866]
4 July: GYULA ERKEL = Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel = [died: 1909]
9 July: CHARLES COLLETTE = English actor and composer = [died: 1924]
19 July: KARL ZELLER = Austrian composer = [died: 1898]
12 September: MARIANNE BRANDT = Austrian operatic contralto = [died: 1921]
24 September: EMMA LIVRY = French ballerina = [died: 1863]
13 October: ANTONIO PASCULLI = Italian oboist and composer = [died: 1924]
2 November: ELEK ERKEL = Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel = [died: 1893]
8 November: EUGEN GURA = German operatic baritone = [died: 1906]

Timeline of Musical Events

31 May: Frederick William IV of Prussia creates a new order of merit for the arts and sciences. Those honoured include: Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt and Gioacchino Rossini.

LOUIS GOTTSCHALK leaves the United States to obtain a classical training in Europe.
FRANZ VON SUPPÉ makes his debut as a singer as Dulcamara in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore at the Ödenburg Theatre.
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS begins studying piano under CAMILLE-MARIE STAMATY.