Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 9 May:   AUGUST DE BOECK = Belgian composer = [died: 1937]
• 9 June:
• CARL NIELSEN = Danish composer = [died: 1931]
• ALBÉRIC MAGNARD = French composer = [died: 1914]
• 21 July:   ROBERT KAHN = German composer = [died: 1951]
• 10 August:   ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV = Russian composer = [died: 1936]
• 1 October:   PAUL DUKAS = French composer = [died: 1935]
• 3 December:   GUSTAV JENNER = German composer = [died: 1920]
• 8 December:   JEAN SIBELIUS = Finnish composer = [died: 1957]
• 25 December:   FAY TEMPLETON = American singer and actress = [died: 1939]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 1 January: HECTOR BERLIOZ completes his Memoirs.
• 28 April: GIACOMO MEYERBEER's opera L'Africaine is premiered in Paris at the Grand Opera, after the composer's death.
• 10 June: RICHARD WAGNER's opera Tristan und Isolde debuts in Munich at the Court Opera
• 9 September: FRANZ VON SUPPE's operetta Die schone Galathee debuts in Vienna's Carl-Theater.
• 17 December: FRANZ SCHUBERT's Unfinished Symphony debuts in Vienna, following the composer's death.


• Undated:
• PHILIPP SCHARWENKA relocates to Berlin.
• JOSEPH PARRY is admitted to the Gorsedd of bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

Published Popular Songs

• "Jeff in Pettycoats" = by HENRY TUCKER
• "Marching Through Georgia" = lyrics & music by HENRY CLAY WORK
• "Roll Jordan Roll" = Traditional Spiritual
• "The Ship That Never Returned" = lyrics & music by HENRY CLAY WORK
• "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" = lyrics & music by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT

Classical Music

• ELFRIDA ANDREE
• Piano quintet in E minor
• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Trio for violin, horn and piano op. 40
• FELIX DRAESEKE
• Lacrimosa
• ANTONÍN DVORAK
• Symphony no. 1 (The Bells of Zlonice)
• Cello concerto no. 1 in A major (later reconstructed by Gunter Raphael and by Jaromir Burghauser)
• EDVARD GRIEG
• Piano sonata op. 7 in E minor
• Violin sonata no. 1 op. 8
• FRANZ LISZT
• Missa Choralis

Opera

• FRANÇOIS BAZIN
• Le voyage en Chine
• GIACOMO MEYERBEER
• L'Africaine
• RICHARD WAGNER
• Tristan und Isolde

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 26 December 1865 @ Her Majesty's Theatre, London
• ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD [London production]
  (Operetta)
• written by Jacques Offenbach
• Closing: date unknown          Performance Count: 76