Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 13 January:   VASILY KALINNIKOV = Russian composer = [died: 1901]
• 1 April:   FERRUCCIO BUSONI = Italian pianist, composer = [died: 1924]
• 17 May:   ERIK SATIE = French composer = [died: 1925]
• 15 June:   CHARLES WOOD = Irish composer = [died: 1926]
• 30 June:   HARRY TALLY = American, tenor = [died: 1939]
• 13 July:   LA GOULUE = French can-can dancer = [died: 1929]
• 26 July:   FRANCESCO CILEA = Italian composer = [died: 1950]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 30 May: BEDRICH SMETANA's opera Prodana Nevesta (The Bartered Bride) debuts in Prague at the Provisional Theatre
• 4 August: First performance of GABRIEL FAURE's Cantique de Jean Racine
• 21 October: JACQUES OFFENBACH's operetta La Vie Parisienne debuts in Paris's Palais Royale
• 17 November: AMBROISE THOMAS's opera Mignon debuts in Paris at the Opéra-Comique


• Undated:
• Sir WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT becomes Principal of the British Royal Academy of Music.

Published Popular Music

• "Come Back To Erin" = lyrics & music by CLARIBEL
• "We Parted By The River" = lyrics & music by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE HAYS
• "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" = by JAMES A. BUTTERFIELD & GEORGE WASHINGTON JOHNSON
• "Write Me A Letter Home" = lyrics & music by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE HAYS

Classical Music

• GEORGES BIZET
• La jolie fille de Perth: suite
• FELIX DRAESEKE
• Fantasie on Themes from Boieldieus "Weisse Dame"
• JOHANN GOTTFRIED PIEFKE
• Koniggratzer Marsch
• AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
• Concerto for Trumpet in F major
• FRANZ VON SUPPE
• Light Cavalry Overture

Opera

• KAREL MIRY
• Maria van Boergondie (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on August 28 in Ghent)
• De Keizer bij de Boeren (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on October 29 in Ghent)
• De occasie maakt den dief (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on December 24 in Ghent)

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 30 June 1866 @ the Adelphi Theatre, London
• LA BELLE HELENE [London production]
  (Operetta)
• Music: Jacques Offenbach  Lyrics: Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halevy
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 12 September 1866 @ Niblo's Garden, New York, NY
• THE BLACK CROOK [Original Broadway production]
  (Musical, Extravaganza,Spectacle)
  (the first "book musical")
• Music: Thomas Baker, Giuseppe Operti, George Bickwell;   Book: Charles M. Barras;   Lyrics: Theodore Kennick
• Closing: 4 January 1868          Performance Count: 474