Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 20 January:   YVETTE GUILBERT = French singer, actress = [died: 1944]
• 28 January:   EUGÈNE GOOSSENS, fils = French violinist and conductor = [died: 1958]
• 24 March:
• GUIDO MENASCI = Italian librettist = [died: 1925]
• MARTINUS SIEVEKING = Dutch pianist and composer = [died: 1950]
• 25 March:   ARTURO TOSCANINI = Italian conductor of note = [died: 1957]
• 6 May:   NORA CLENCH = Canadian violinist = [died: 1938]
• 3 June:   BÉLA SZABADOS = Hungarian composer = [died: 1936]
• 27 June:   EWALD STRAESSER = German composer = [died: 1933]
• 10 July:   JULES MOUQUET = French composer = [died: 1946]
• 27 July:   ENRIQUE GRANADOS = Spanish composer = [died: 1916]
• 28 August:   UMBERTO GIORDANO = Italian opera composer = [died: 1948]
• 5 September:   AMY BEACH = American composer = [died: 1944]
• 7 September:   EVAN WILLIAMS = Amerian operatic tenor = [died: 1918]
• 12 September:   HERBERT L. CLARKE = American cornet virtuoso and composer = [died: 1945]
• 27 November:
• CHARLES KOECHLIN = French composer, teacher and writer on music = [died: 1950]
• MARGARET RUTHVEN LANG = American composer = [died: 1972]
• 27 December:   HENRI CHRISTINÉ = French composer of Swiss birth = [died: 1941]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 11 March: GIUSEPPE VERDI's opera Don Carlos is premiered at the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier.
• 12 April: JACQUES OFFENBACH's operetta La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein is premiered in Paris at the Theatre des Varietes.
• 22 April: THE HYERS SISTERS make their professional début at Sacramento's Metropolitan Theater.
• 27 April: CHARLES GOUNOD's opera Romeo et Juliette is premiered at the Theatre Lyrique in Paris.
• 11 June: Soprano NINA GRIEG marries her cousin, composer EDVARD GRIEG, in Copenhagen.
• September: Premiere of the opera O ypopsifios [The Parliamentary Candidate] (music: SPYRIDON XYNDAS, libr. IOANNIS RINOPOULOS), the first full-scale opera in Greek.
• 26 December: GEORGES BIZET's opera La jolie fille de Perth is premiered at the Theatre Lyrique.


• Undated:
• ARTHUR SULLIVAN scores his first operetta, Cox and Box.
• The Maple Leaf Forever is written by ALEXANDER MUIR.
• The Royal Danish Academy of Music is founded in Copenhagen by NIELS GADE.

Published Popular Music

• "Blue Danube Waltz" = by JOHANN STRAUSS II
• "Champagne Charlie" = by ALFRED LEE & H. J. WHYMARK
• "Croquet" = lyrics by C.H. WEBB; music by JOHN ROGERS THOMAS
• "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" = by GEORGE LEYBOURNE, GASTON LYLE, & ALFRED LEE
• "Not For Joseph" = lyrics & music by ARTHUR LLOYD
• "The Moon Is Out To Night, Love" = lyrics & music by WILL S. HAYS
• "Waiting" = lyrics ELLEN H. FLAGG; music by HARRISON MILLARD

Classical Music

• Sir WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT
• The Woman of Samaria (cantata)
• FELIX DRAESEKE
• Zwei Konzertwalzer, op 4: Nr. 1 in E-flat; Nr. 2 in D-flat
• Ballade for Cello and Piano in B -
• HERMANN GOETZ
• Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major -

Opera

• CHARLES GOUNOD
• Romeo et Juliette
• EDOUARD LALO
• Fiesque
• JULES MASSENET
• La Grand'Tante
• KAREL MIRY
• Frans Ackermann (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premièred on October 13, in Brussels)
• Brutus en Cesar (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premièred on October 14, in Ghent)
• Le Mariage de Marguerite (opera in 1 act, libretto by M. de Wille, premièred on November 27, in Ghent)

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 11 May 1867 @ the Adelphi Theatre, London
• COX AND BOX [London production]
  (Comic Opera)
• Music: Arthur Sullivan;   Lyrics: Francis Cowley Burnand
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 300


• Opening: 18 December 1867 @ St. George's Opera House, London
• THE CONTRABANDISTA or THE LAW OF THE LADRONES [London production]
  (Comic Opera)
• Music: Arthur Sullivan;   Lyrics: Francis Cowley Burnand
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 72