Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

17 January: WILHELM KIENZL = Austrian composer = [died: 1941]
28 February: GUSTAV KERKER = German-born composer = [died: 1923]
3 March: ALFRED BRUNEAU = French composer = [died: 1934]
4 March: HENRY W. PETRIE = American songwriter = [died: 1925]
8 March: RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO = Italian opera composer = [died: 1919]
21 April: PAUL DRESSER = American composer = [died: 1906]
29 April: FRANTIŠEK ONDŘÍČEK = Czech violinist and composer = [died: 1922]
2 May: FREDERIC CLIFFE = English composer = [died: 1931]
9 May: LUIGI ILLICA = Italian librettist for Puccini, Catalani, Giordano and others = [died: 1919]
2 June: EDWARD ELGAR = English composer = [died: 1934]
5 June: ÁRPÁD DOPPLER = Hungarian-German composer = [died: 1927]
8 August: CÉCILE CHAMINADE = French composer = [died: 1944]
8 September: OLGA BJÖRKENGREN = Swedish opera singer = [died: 1950]
5 November: JOSEPH TABRAR = British songwriter = [died: 1931]
14 November: ROSALIND ELLICOTT = English composer = [died: 1924]
12 December: LILLIAN NORDICA = American opera singer = [died: 1914]
27 December: CHARLES MANNERS = British operatic bass and opera company manager = [died: 1935]
30 December: SYLVIO LAZZARI = Italian composer and conductor = [died: 1944]

Timeline of Musical Events

GEORGES BIZET wins the Prix de Rome.
Irish opera diva CATHERINE HAYES marries her manager, WILLIAM AVERY BUSHNELL, in San Francisco.

"Does He Love Me?" = lyrics by ANNIE CHAMBERS BRADFORD; music by F. W. SMITH
"Jingle Bells" = by JAMES PIERPONT
"Le beau Monde" = by JOHANN STRAUSS II
"Lorena" = lyrics by Reverend HENRY D. L. WEBSTER; music by JOSEPH PHILBRICK WEBSTER