Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

21 January: HENRI DUPARC = French composer = [died: 1933]
27 February: HUBERT PARRY = English composer, teacher and music historian = [died: 1918]
15 March: WILLIAM J. McCOY = American composer = [died: 1926]
1 June: OTTO MALLING = Danish organist and composer = [died: 1915]
31 July: ROBERT PLANQUETTE = French composer and songwriter = [died: 1903]
1 August: FRANTIŠEK KMOCH = Czech conductor and composer = [died: 1912]
15 September: WILHELM FITZENHAGEN = German cellist and composer = [died: 1890]
8 October: PIERRE DE GEYTER = Belgian composer = [died: 1932]
11 November: WILLIAM SEIDEL = German, Band Instrument Manufacturer = [died: 1922]
27 December: GEORGE RATCLIFFE WOODWARD = Anglican priest and composer = [died: 1934]
30 December:

Timeline of Musical Events

October: FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN writes his last will and testament at a friend's house in Edinburgh.
16 November: FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN makes his last public appearance on a concert platform at London's Guildhall.

RICHARD WAGNER begins writing libretto that will become Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
FRANZ LISZT takes up full-time post as conductor to the Weimar court orchestra
CHARLES HALLÉ settles in Manchester.
Returning from exile, Cuban dance band leader CLAUDIO BRINDIS DE SALAS is imprisoned for two years by the island's authorities.
GIUSEPPE VERDI insists on replacing soprano EUGENIA TADOLINI as Lady Macbeth for the first Naples performance of his opera Macbeth on the grounds that her voice and appearance are too beautiful.