Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

25 February: EUGÈNE GOOSSENS, pére = Belgian conductor = [died: 1906]
7 March: EDWARD LLOYD = British concert tenor = [died: 1927]
14 March: AUGUST BUNGERT = German opera composer = [died: 1915]
12 May: GABRIEL FAURÉ = French composer = [died: 1924]
22 May: FRANCIS HUEFFER = German-English music critic = [died: 1889]
13 June: EFFIE GERMON = American actress and singer = [died: 1914]
2 July: ROSINA BRANDRAM = English opera singer and actress = [died: 1907]
6 July: ÁNGELA PERALTA = Mexican operatic soprano = [died: 1883]
10 August: ABAY QUNANBAYULI = Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher = [died: 1904]
25 August: KING LUDWIG II OF BAVARIA = Bavarian, the great patron of Richard Wagner = [died: 1886]
6 November: BENIAMINO CESI = Italian pianist = [died: 1907]

ANTONIO GALASSI = Italian operatic baritone = [died: 1904]
ALPHONSE HASSELMANS = Belgian-born French harpist and composer = [died: 1912]

Timeline of Musical Events

13 March: FELIX MENDELSSOHN's Violin Concerto is premièred in Leipzig
21 April: ALBERT LORTZING's opera Undine debuts in Magdeburg.
4 June: WILLIAM FRY's opera Leonora debuts in Philadelphia.
July: Pas de Quatre is premièred in London, bringing together four of the greatest ballerinas of the time: LUCILE GRAHN, CARLOTTA GRISI, FANNY CERRITO, and MARIE TAGLIONI.
19 October: RICHARD WAGNER's opera Tannhäuser debuts at the Dresden Hoftheater.