Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 13 March:   HUGO WOLF = Austrian composer of Slovene origin = [died: 1903]
• 5 May:   PIETRO FLORIDIA = Italian composer = [died: 1932]
• 29 May:   ISAAC ALBÉNIZ = Spanish pianist and composer = [died: 1909]
• 25 June:   GUSTAVE CHARPENTIER = French composer = [died: 1956]
• 7 July:
• FLORENCE FARR = British actress and composer = [died: 1917]
• GUSTAV MAHLER = Austrian conductor and composer = [died: 1911]
• 1 September:   CLEOFONTE CAMPANINI = Italian conductor = [died: 1919]
• 18 September:   ALBERTO FRANCHETTI = Italian opera composer = [died: 1942]
• 6 November:   IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI = Polish pianist = [died: 1941]
• 27 November:   VICTOR EWALD = Russian composer = [died: 1935]
• 4 December:   LILLIAN RUSSELL = American singer and actress = [died: 1922]
• 18 December:   EDWARD MacDOWELL = American pianist and composer = [died: 1908]
• 20 December:   DAN LENO = English music hall comedian, dancer and singer = [died: 1904]
• 28 December:   HARRY B. SMITH = American songwriter = [died: 1936]

Timeline of Musical Events

• Undated:
• The first Viennese operetta, Das Pensionat by FRANZ VON SUPPE, debuts at the Theater an der Wien
• First official National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Denbigh.

Published Popular Music

• "Down Among the Cane-Brakes" = by STEPHEN FOSTER
• "Kalinka" = by IVAN LARIONOV
• "Mary Of Argyle" = lyrics by CHARLES H. JEFFERYS; music by SIDNEY NELSON
• "Old Black Joe" = by STEPHEN FOSTER
• "Virginia Belle" = by STEPHEN FOSTER
• "When The Corn Is Waving, Annie Dear" = lyrics & music by CHARLES BLAMPHIN
• "Wildwood Flower" = lyrics by MAUD IRVING; music by JOSEPH PHILBRICK WEBSTER

Classical Music

• ANTON RUBINSTEIN
• Soirees a Saint-Petersbourg
• FRANZ LISZT
• Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Opera

• FLOR VAN DUYSE
• Teniers te Grimbergen (libretto by Prudens van Duyse, premiered at Ghent

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 1860 @ Vienna
• ORPHEE AUX ENFERS [Vienna production]
  (Operetta)
• Music composed by Jacques Offenbach;  French text written by Ludovic Halévy
• Closing: date unknown