Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

1 January: RUDOLF TILLMETZ = German flute virtuoso, music teacher and composer = [died: 1915]
15 February: ROBERT FUCHS = Austrian composer and music teacher = [died: 1927]
9 March: AXEL GRANDJEAN = Danish conductor and composer = [died: 1932]
28 June: SVEINBJÖRN SVEINBJÖRNSSON = Icelandic composer = [died: 1927]
12 July: KARL HEINRICH BARTH = German pianist and music teacher = [died: 1922]
21 July: VÍCTOR MIRECKI LARRAMAT = Spanish cellist and music teacher = [died: 1921]
21 October: GIUSEPPE GIACOSA = Italian librettist for some of Puccini's operas = [died: 1906]
1 November: EMMA ALBANI = Canadian soprano = [died: 1930]
30 November: AUGUST KLUGHARDT = German conductor and composer = [died: 1902]
1 December: AGATHE BACKER GRØNDAHL = Norwegian pianist and composer = [died: 1907]
18 December: AUGUSTA HOLMÈS = French composer = [died: 1903]

Timeline of Musical Events

28 February: Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside, most of the audience perishes.
14 March: Verdi's Macbeth (opera) is premiered at Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.