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