Mark's Music Circus
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Music Events of

Births

29 January: FREDERICK DELIUS = English composer = [died: 1934]
30 January: WALTER DAMROSCH = German-born American conductor and composer = [died: 1950]
13 February: KAREL WEIS = Czech composer and folksong collector = [died: 1944]
17 February: EDWARD GERMAN = English musician and composer of Welsh descent = [died: 1936]
2 May: MAURICE EMMANUEL = French composer = [died: 1938]
27 June: MAY IRWIN = Canadian actress and singer = [died: 1938]
11 August: CARRIE JACOBS-BOND = American songwriter = [died: 1946]
22 August: CLAUDE DEBUSSY = French composer = [died: 1918]
25 September: LÉON BOËLLMANN = French composer and organist of Alsatian origin = [died: 1897]
10 October: ARTHUR DE GREEF = Belgian composer and pianist = [died: 1940]
1 November: JOHAN WAGENAAR = Dutch organist and composer = [died: 1941]
18 December: MORIZ ROSENTHAL = Polish pianist = [died: 1946]

Timeline of Musical Events

1 February: "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by JULIA WARD HOWE is published in Atlantic Monthly.
17 March: ANTON RUBINSTEIN is named first director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, which opens in September.
24 March: FROMENTAL HALÉVY's funeral, in Paris, is attended by an estimated 15,000 people.
24 April: A letter from GIUSEPPE VERDI is published in The Times, complaining about the rejection of a work commissioned from him for the Great Exhibition.
17 May: Teatro Comunale Florence inaugurated as an open-air amphitheatre, the Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele, with a production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
21 May: EDVARD GRIEG gives his first concert in his home town of Bergen, Norway.
4 August: LOUIS-ALBERT BOURGAULT-DUCOUDRAY wins the Prix de Rome in the Musical Composition category. JULES MASSENET is one of the runners-up.
9 August: "Béatrice et Bénédict", opera by HECTOR BERLIOZ, is premièred in Baden-Baden.
2 November: The overture to "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" by RICHARD WAGNER is publicly performed in Leipzig, conducted by the composer.
10 November:

GIUSEPPE VERDI's opera "La forza del destino" is premièred in Saint Petersburg.
LUBWIG VON KÖCHEL publishes Chonologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts (Catalogue of Mozart's Works or "The Köchel Catalog").

18 November: ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK is a member of the orchestra at the opening of the Provisional Theater in Prague.

STEPHEN HELLER and CHARLES HALLÉ perform Mozart's E-flat concerto for two pianos at The Crystal Palace.
The Saint Petersburg Conservatory is founded by ANTON RUBINSTEIN.

"Here's Your Mule" = by C. D. BENSON
"The Merry, Merry Month of May" = by STEPHEN FOSTER
"Maryland, My Maryland" = by JAMES R. RANDALL
"We Are Coming, Father Abra'am 300,000 More" = a poem written by JAMES S. GIBBONS, was set to music by eight different composers, including STEPHEN FOSTER.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT published one version (with music by LUTHER ORLANDO EMERSON (1820-1915).
Bryant's newspaper originally published the poem and, because it was originally published anonymously, many assumed it was his,
and it was widely republished, so Bryant issued a statement denying his authorship.
The poem and music came in response to a call by Abraham Lincoln on July 1 for volunteers to fight the American Civil War.