Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

6 January: BEN DAVIES = Welsh operatic tenor = [died: 1943]
24 February: ARNOLD DOLMETSCH = French-born musical instrument maker = [died: 1940]
30 March: DEWOLF HOPPER = American actor and singer = [died: 1935]
22 April: ETHEL SMYTH = English composer = [died: 1944]
22 May: CHARLES KJERULF = Danish composer = [died: 1919]
16 July: EUGÈNE YSAŸE = Belgian composer = [died: 1931]
21 July: CHANCELLOR OLCOTT = Irish American singer and songwriter = [died: 1932]
August: HELEN RHODES (GUY D'HARDELOT) = French pianist and composer = [died: 1936]
1 August: HANS ROTT = Austrian composer = [died: 1884]
9 August: ISIDORE DE LARA = English composer = [died: 1935]
11 November: ALESSANDRO MORESCHI = Italian castrato singer = [died: 1922]
22 December: GIACOMO PUCCINI = Italian composer = [died: 1924]

Timeline of Musical Events

25 January: The Wedding March by FELIX MENDELSSOHN is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter "Vicky," the Princess Royal, to Prince Friedrich of Prussia, leading to its becoming popular wedding music.
7 September: Queen Victoria opens Leeds Town Hall; the celebratory concert marks the first Leeds Festival.

EDVARD GRIEG meets OLE BULL, who recognises his musical talent.
RICHARD WAGNER's affair with MATHILDE WESENDONCK is discovered by his wife, and he leaves Zurich.
ARTHUR SULLIVAN goes to Leipzig to study music.
The Harvard Glee Club is founded at Harvard University.