Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 25 January:   JAN BLOCKX = Belgian pianist, composer and music teacher = [died: 1912]
• 27 January:   GASPAR VILLATE = Cuban composer = [died: 1891]
• 12 February:   ANNA YESIPOVA = Russian pianist = [died: 1914]
• 27 March:
• RUPERTO CHAPÍ = Spanish composer = [died: 1909]
• VINCENT d'INDY = French composer = [died: 1931]
• 1 May:   LUDVIG HEGNER = Danish composer = [died: 1923]
• 6 May:   JEAN-ALEXANDRE TALAZAC = French operatic tenor = [died: 1896]
• 7 May:   JULIUS BUTHS = German pianist, conductor and composer = [died: 1920]
• 17 May:   VICTOR BENDIX = Jewish Danish pianist, conductor and composer = [died: 1926]
• 11 June:   OSCAR BORG = Norwegian composer = [died: 1930]
• 12 June:   POL PLANÇON = French operatic bass = [died: 1914]
• 8 August:   WALBORG LAGERWALL = Swedish violinist = [died: 1940]
• 11 October:   JOSIF MARINKOVIC = Serbian composer = [died: 1931]
• 16 October:   VIGGO BIELEFELDT = Danish composer = [died: 1909]
• 16 November:   MINNIE HAUK = American operatic soprano = [died: 1929]


• date unknown:
• MARIE HEILBRON = Belgian operatic soprano = [died: 1886]

Timeline of Musical Events

• February:   Operatic tenor SIMS REEVES returns to perform in Dublin with his new wife, soprano CHARLOTTE EMMA LUCOMBE.
• 6 February:   Schumann's Symphony No. 3 premiered in Düsseldorf, the composer conducting.
• 23 July:   RICHARD WAGNER writes down the leitmotif for the "Ride of the Valkyries".


• Undated:
• Operatic baritone HANS VON MILDE marries soprano ROSA AGTHE.

Published Popular Music

• "Cora, The Indian Maiden's Song" = lyrics by SHIRLEY BROOKS; music by ALEXANDER LEE
• "I Would Not Die in Summer Time" = by STEPHEN FOSTER
• "Laura Lee" = by STEPHEN FOSTER
• "Old Folks at Home'" (Way Down Upon the Suwannee River) = by STEPHEN FOSTER
• "Ring, Ring, de Banjo" = by STEPHEN FOSTER

Classical Music

• WOLDEMAR BARGIEL
• Piano Trio No. 1 in F major, op. 6
• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Scherzo in E-flat minor, op. 4
• FRANZ LISZT
• Transcendental Etudes for Piano, S 139
• GEORGE ONSLOW
• Wind quintet opus 81
• ANTON RUBINSTEIN
• Symphony No. 2 (Ocean) (first version)
• ROBERT SCHUMANN
• Symphony No. 4 from 1841 revised. First violin sonata, second violin sonata, Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, several oratorios, two concert overtures, third piano trio, also written (third violin sonata dates from 1853)

Opera

• FÉLICIEN-CÉSAR DAVID
• La Perle du Bresil
• CHARLES GOUNOD
• Sapho
• ALBERT LORTZING
• Die Oprnprobe
• JOACHIM RAFF
• König Alfred
• GIUSEPPE VERDI
• Rigoletto