Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of
Births
21 February:
PIERRE DE BRÉVILLE
= French composer = [died: 1949]
7 April:
CLARA NOVELLO DAVIES
= Welsh singer, conductor and music teacher = [died: 1943]
26 April:
FERDINAND BUESCHER
= American instrument manufacturer = [died: 1937]
19 May:
NELLIE MELBA
= Australian operatic soprano = [died: 1931]
15 June:
ERNESTINE SCHUMANN-HEINK
= Austrian, later American operatic contralto = [died: 1936]
17 June:
SIDNEY JONES
= English composer of musical comedies = [died: 1946]
27 June:
FANNY DAVIES
= English pianist = [died: 1934]
11 August:
ANTON ARENSKY
= Russian pianist and composer [died: 1906]
29 November:
SPYRIDON SAMARAS
= Greek opera composer, who also set to music the Olympic Anthem = [died: 1917]
5 December:
JAMES THORNTON
= English-born American songwriter and vaudeville comedian = [died: 1938]
18 December:
LIONEL MONCKTON
= English composer = [died: 1924]
date unknown:
CAMILLE D'ELMAR
= American opera singer = [died: 1902]
GIUSEPPE FIORINI
= Italian musical instrument maker = [died: 1934]
SIGISMUND ZAREMBA
= Ukrainian and Russian composer of Polish ethnicity = [died: 1915]
FERDINAND ELLSWORTH OLDS
= American instrument manufacturer = [died: 1928]
Timeline of Musical Events
Undated:
Tannhauser scandal in Paris.
GIUSEPPE VERDI
is elected a deputy in the first parliament of the new Italian nation.
Published Popular Music
"Abide With Me"
= lyrics by
Rev HENRY FRANCIS LYTE
(1847); music by
WILLIAM HENRY MONK
"Alice, Where Art Thou"
= lyrics by
WELLINGTON GUERNSEY
; music by
JOSEPH ASCHER
"Aura Lea"
= lyrics by
W. W. FOSDICK
; music by
GEORGE R. POULTON
"The Bonnie Blue Flag"
= lyrics by
MRS ANNIE CHAMBER-KETCHUM
; music by
HARRY MacCARTHY
"Eternal Father, Strong To Save"
= lyrics by
WILLIAM WHITING
; music by
Rev. JOHN BACCHUS DYKES
"Go Down, Moses"
= traditional spiritual
"Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty"
= lyrics by
REGINALD HEBER
; music by
JOHN BACCHUS DYKES
"I'm Going Home to Dixie"
= lyrics by
DAN EMMETT
; arranged by
C. S. GRAFULLY
"John Brown's Body"
= lyrics by
ANON
; music by
WILLIAM STEFFE
"Maryland, My Maryland"
= lyrics by
JAMES RYDER RANDALL
; music by
WALTER DE MAPERS
(Music "Mini est Propositum" 12th century)
"The Vacant Chair"
= lyrics by
HENRY S. WASHBURNE
; music by
GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT
Classical Music
HERMANN GOETZ
Piano Concerto in E-flat
Opera
FERENC ERKEL
Bank Ban
AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
La Savoiarda
Musical Theatre
Opening: 4 February 1861 @ New Bowery Theatre, New York, NY
HARLEQUIN JACK
[Original production]
(Musical, Comedy, Pantomime)
Music by: George L. Fox; Written by: George L. Fox
Closing: 16 March 1861 Performance Count: 26
Opening: March 1961 @ the Stadt Theatre, on Broadway, New York, NY
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD
[Original Broadway production]
(Operetta)
written by Jacques Offenbach
Closing: date unknown
Opening: 9 September 1861 @ Winter Garden Theatre, New York, NY
CINDERELLA
[Original production]
(Musical, Extravaganza)
Music by: Charles Koppitz; Written by: Charles Dawson Shanley
Closing: 5 October 1861 Performance Count: 24
Opening: 23 September 1861 @ Laura Keene's Theatre, New York, NY
THE SEVEN SISTERS
[Original production]
(Musical, Burlesque)
Music by: Thomas Baker; Written by: Robert Jones
Closing: 21 December 1861 Performance Count: 96
Opening: 25 September 1861 @ Wallack's Theatre, New York, NY
THE NEW PRESIDENT
[Original production]
(Play)
Written by: Tom Taylor
Closing: date unknown
Opening: 28 October 1861 @ Academy of Music, New York, NY
LES NOCES DE JEANNETTE
[Original production]
(Musical, Comedy, Opera)
Music by: Victor Masse; Libretto by: Jules Barbier, Michel Carre
Closing: 28 October 1861 Performance Count: 1
Opening: 23 December 1861 @ Barnum's New American Museum, New York, NY
ONDINA!
[Original production]
(Musical, Drama, Spectacle)
Drama entirely produced by E. F. Taylor; Produced by Phineas T. Barnum
Closing: 1 March 1862 Performance Count: 114
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The Music Maestro
Mark Chard
BSc
Page created: 11th January 2011
Last edited: 28th September 2023
