Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

17 January: HENRY CHARLES TONKING = English composer = [died: 1926]
5 February: ARMAND PARENT = Belgian composer = [died: 1925]
7 February: MIECZYSLAW SOLTYS = Polish composer = [died: 1929]
19 February: EMÁNUEL MOÓR = Hungarian composer = [died: 1931]
20 March: ERNESTO NAZARETH = Brazilian pianist and composer = [died: 1934]
21 March: HUGO KAUN = German conductor, composer and music teacher = [died: 1932]
19 April: FELIX BLUMENFELD = Russian composer, pianist = [died: 1931]
12 May: CHARLES BORDES = French composer = [died: 1909]
2 June: FELIX VON WEINGARTNER = Austrian composer, conductor = [died: 1942]
5 June: ARTHUR SOMERVELL = English composer = [died: 1937]
13 June: JOSEF VENANTIUS VON WOSS = Viennese composer = [died: 1943]
16 June: PAUL ANTONIN VIDAL = French composer = [died: 1931]
11 August: ARPAD SZENDY = Hungarian composer = [died: 1922]
8 September: GUSTAVO EMILIO CAMPA = Mexican composer = [died: 1934]
15 September: HORATIO WILLIAM PARKER = American composer = [died: 1919]
11 October: XAVIER HENRY NAPOLEON LEROUX = French composer = [died: 1919]
24 October: MANUEL MANRIQUE DE LARA Y BERRY = Spanish composer? = [died: ????]
1 November: ALFRED REISENAUER = German composer = [died: 1907]
3 November: EUGENE SAMUEL-HOLEMAN = composer = [died: 1942]
30 November: GELLIO BENEVENUTO CORONARO = composer = [died: 1916]
2 December: GUSTAV WOHLGEMUTH = German composer = [died: 1937]
7 December: PIETRO MASCAGNI = Italian composer = [died: 1945]
17 December: ION VIDU = Romanian composer and choral conductor = [died: 1931]

Timeline of Musical Events

10 May: Violinist JOSEPH JOACHIM marries contralto AMALIE SCHNEEWEISS.
30 September: GEORGES BIZET's opera, Les pecheurs de perles debuts at the Theatre Lyrique in Paris.
4 November: Les Troyens, opera by HECTOR BERLIOZ, debuts, also at the Theatre Lyrique

Undated:

MODEST MUSSORGSKY begins work on an opera, Salammbo, which is never finished.
JULES MASSENET wins the Prix de Rome in the Musical Composition category.

Published Popular Music

"All Quiet On The Potomac Tonight" = lyrics by ETHEL LYNN BEERS; music by JOHN HILL HEWITT
"Eton Boating Song" = lyrics by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY; music by Captain ALGERNON DRUMMOND
"Just Before the Battle, Mother" = by GEORGE F. ROOT
"Mother Would Comfort Me" = lyrics & music by CHARLES C. SAWYER
"Oh My Darling, Clementine" = by PERCY MONTROSE & H S. THOMPSON
"Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" = lyrics by HARRY CLIFTON; music by Traditional
"Sweet and Low" = lyrics by ALFRED TENNYSON; music by JOSEPH BARNBY
"Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" = lyrics & music by WALTER KITTREDGE
"Weeping Sad And Lonely" = lyrics by CHARLES CARROLL SAWYER; music by HENRY TUCKER
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" = by LOUIS LAMBERT & PATRICK GILMORE
"You Are Going To The Wars, Willie Boy!" = lyrics & music by JOHN HILL HEWITT
"The Young Volunteer" = lyrics & music by JOHN HILL HEWITT