Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

26 January: W. O. FORSYTH = Canadian pianist and composer = [died: 1937]
1 February: VICTOR HERBERT = Irish-born, German-raised American cellist, conductor and composer = [died: 1924]
3 April: REGINALD DE KOVEN = American composer = [died: 1920]
5 April: WILHELM HARTEVELD = Swedish composer = [died: 1927]
11 April: BASIL HARWOOD = English organist and composer = [died: 1949]
13 May: AUGUST ENNA = Danish composer = [died: 1939]
22 June: FRANK HEINO DAMROSCH = German-born American founder of Institute of Music = [died: 1937]
27 June: MILDRED J. HILL = American composer of "Happy Birthday to You" = [died: 1916]
21 July: CHARLES H. TAYLOR = British lyricist = [died: 1907]
21 September: OTTO LOHSE = German conductor and composer = [died: 1925]
24 September: JULIUS KLENGEL = German cellist, composer = [died: 1933]
14 October: CAMILLE CHEVILLARD = French conductor and composer = [died: 1923]
15 November: JOSEPH VIDAL = French composer = [died: 1924]
19 November: MIKHAIL IPPOLITOV-IVANOV = Russian conductor and composer = [died: 1935]
30 November: SERGEI LYAPUNOV = Russian pianist and composer = [died: 1924]
21 December: MAX FIEDLER = German conductor and composer = [died: 1939]
23 December: ADRIAN ROSS = English lyricist = [died: 1933]
27 December: WILLIAM HENRY HADOW = English musicologist = [died: 1937]
30 December: JOSEF BOHUSLAV FOERSTER = Czech composer = [died: 1951]

Timeline of Musical Events

4 March: Charter of the French Opera House, New Orleans, which opens on 1st December of the same year with a gala performance of Rossini's William Tell.
4 April: Bryants Minstrels debut "Dixie" at Mechanics' Hall, New York City.

ALEXANDER BORODIN begins a period of research at Heidelberg, working on benzene derivatives.
ALBERTO MAZZUCATO becomes musical director of La Scala opera house.
First sound transcriber (the Phonautograph, pictured above) used. It could transcribe sound to a visible medium, but had no means to play back the sound after it was recorded.

"Darling little blue eyed Nell" = lyrics by B. E. WOOLF; music by FREDERICK BUCKLEY
In 1859, JOHN FREEMAN YOUNG published the English translation of "Silent Night" that is most frequently sung today.