Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

10 February: ADELINA PATTI = Spanish soprano = [died: 1919]
6 March: ARTHUR NAPOLEÃO DOS SANTOS = Brazilian composer = [died: 1925]
16 March: LOUIS GREGH = French composer and publisher = [died: 1915]
8 April: ASGER HAMERIK = Danish composer = [died: 1923]
2 May: KARL MICHAEL ZIEHRER = Austrian composer and bandmaster = [died: 1922]
20 May: MIGUEL MARQUÉS = Spanish composer and violinist = [died: 1918]
29 May: EMILE PESSARD = French composer = [died: 1917]
13 June: ADOLF NEUENDORFF = German-American composer, conductor, pianist and violinist = [died: 1897]
15 June: EDVARD GRIEG = Norwegian composer and pianist = [died: 1907]
16 June: DAVID POPPER = Bohemian cellist and composer = [died: 1913]
19 June: CHARLES ÉDOUARD LEFEBVRE = French composer = [died: 1917]
20 June: FYODOR STRAVINSKY = Russian opera singer = [died: 1902]
4 August: FLOR VAN DUYSE = Belgian composer and musicologist = [died: 1910]
5 August: JAMES SCOTT SKINNER = Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler, and composer = [died 1927]
19 August: SÁNDOR BERTHA = Hungarian composer = [died: 1912]
20 August: CHRISTINA NILSSON = Swedish operatic soprano = [died: 1921]
26 August: GEORG AUGUST LUMBYE = Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye = [died: 1922]
4 September: JÁN LEVOSLAV BELLA = Slovak composer = [died: 1936]
8 November: MADELINE SCHILLER = British-born pianist = [died: 1911]
10 November: GIALDINO GIALDINI = Italian composer = [died: 1919]
28 November: ÉMILE BERNARD = French composer and organist = [died: 1902]
3 December: FRANZ XAVER NERUDA = Danish cellist and composer = [died: 1915]
13 December: GEORGE STEPHANESCU = Romanian composer = [died: 1925]
22 December: JULIUS BECHGAARD = Danish composer = [died: 1917]

date unknown:

EDUARD HOLST = Danish composer = [died: 1899]

Timeline of Musical Events

6 February: The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).
13 November: GAETANO DONIZETTI's final opera Dom Sébastien is premiered at the Paris Opera.

Undated:

AUGUST CONRADI becomes organist of the Invalidinhaus, Berlin.
GOTTFRIED KINKEL marries fellow musician JOHANNA MOCKEL.

Popular Music

"Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" = lyrics & music by THOMAS BECKET
"I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" from the light opera The Bohemian Girl = lyrics by ALFRED BUNN; music by MICHAEL WILLIAM BALFE
"Old Dan Tucker" = usually attributed to DAN EMMETT
"Then You'll Remember Me" from the light opera The Bohemian Girl = lyrics by ALFRED BUNN; music by MICHAEL WILLIAM BALFE