Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 7 February:   ARTHUR COLLINS = American singer = [died: 1933]
• 10 April:   EUGEN D'ALBERT = Scottish-born German composer, pianist = [died: 1932]
• 11 June:   RICHARD STRAUSS = German composer, conductor = [died: 1949]
• 6 July:   ALBERTO NEPOMUCENO = Brazilian composer and conductor = [died: 1920]
• 18 August:   GEMMA BELLINCIONI = Italian operatic soprano = [died: 1950]
• 7 October:   LOUIS F. GOTTSCHALK = American composer = [died: 1934]


• date unknown:
• ALICE ESTY = American-born British operatic soprano = [died: 1935]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 24 February: BEDŘICH SMETANA's symphonic poem Hakon Jarl premieres in Prague
• 29 February: Composer GIOACHINO ROSSINI celebrates his 72nd (18th) birthday with a party.
• 17 December: JACQUES OFFENBACH's operetta La Belle Hélène receives its first performance at the Paris Variétés


• Undated:
• HANS VON BÜLOW takes over from FRANZ LACHNER at the Munich opera.
• ANTON BRUCKNER composes his Symphony No. 0 ("Die Nullte").

Published Popular Music

• "Beautiful Dreamer" = by STEPHEN FOSTER
• "The Picture on the Wall" = by HENRY CLAY WORK
• "Shall We Gather at the River?" = lyrics & music by ROBERT LOWRY
• "Somebody's Darling" = lyrics & music by JOHN HILL HEWITT
• "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Boys Are Marching)" = by GEORGE F. ROOT

Classical Music

• LOUIS GOTTSCHALK
• The Dying Poet
• FRIEDRICH KIEL
• Piano Concerto
• FRANZ STRAUSS
• Nocturno for Horn and Piano
• THOMAS TELLEFSEN
• Trio for piano, violin and cello (opus 31)
• ROBERT VOLKMANN
• Symphony no. 2

Opera

• FLOR VAN DUYSE
• Rosalinde (libretto by Karel Versnaeyen, premiered in Antwerp)
• KAREL MIRY
• Bouchard-d'Avesnes (opera in 5 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on March 6 in Ghent)
• JACQUES OFFENBACH
• Die Rheinnixen (The Rhine Fairies)