Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

14 January: CLARA KATHLEEN ROGERS = American singer and composer = [died: 1931]
29 January: COLONEL CHARLES GERARD CONN = American instrument manufacturer = [died: 1931]
21 February: CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR = French organist and composer = [died: 1937]
10 March: PABLO DE SARASATE = Spanish violinist and composer = [died: 1908]
18 March: NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV = Russian composer = [died: 1908]
9 April: LÁSZLÓ ERKEL = Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel = [died: 1896]
8 May: HERMANN GRAEDENER = German conductor and composer = [died: 1929]
3 June: ÉMILE PALADILHE = French composer = [died: 1926]
5 December: Sir FREDERICK BRIDGE = English organist and composer = [died: 1924]
21 December: OLGA SANDBERG = Swedish ballerina = [died: 1926]

Timeline of Musical Events

25 November: The Bohemian Girl music by MICHAEL WILLIAM BALFE and libretto by ALFRED BUNN has its American premiere at the Park Theatre, New York.

THOMAS TELLEFSEN becomes a pupil of FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN.
JACQUES OFFENBACH converts to Catholicism and marries HERMINIE D'ALCAIN.

"The Blue Juniata" = lyrics & music by MARION DIX SULLIVAN
"Open Thy Lattice, Love" = lyrics by GEORGE POPE MORRIS; music by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER
"Skip To My Lou" = Traditional, US