Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 21 April:   LEO BLECH = German conductor and composer = [died: 1958]
• 17 June:   JAMES WELDON JOHNSON = American songwriter, author, diplomat and educator = [died: 1938]
• 29 June:   LUISA TETRAZZINI = Italian soprano = [died: 1940]
• 20 December:   HENRY KIMBALL HADLEY = American composer = [died: 1937]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 24 December: GIUSEPPE VERDI's opera Aida premieres.


• Undated:
• ANTON BRUCKNER gives a series of organ recitals in London.
• ASGER HAMERIK becomes musical director of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Published Popular Music

• "The Blue and the Gray" = by JAMES W. LONG
• "Good Bye, Liza Jane" = (anon)
• "The Little Church Around The Corner" = lyrics & music by CHARLES A. WHITE
• "The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane" = lyrics & music by WILLIAM S. HAYS
• "Mollie Darling" = lyrics & music by WILLIAM S. HAYS
• "Oh aint I got the Blues!" = by A.A. CHAPMAN
• "Onward, Christian Soldiers" = lyrics by Rev. SABINE BARING-GOULD; music by Sir ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "Reuben and Rachel" = lyrics by HARRY BIRCH; music by WILLIAM GOOCH
• "Susan Jane" = lyrics & music by WILLIAM S. HAYS

Classical Music

• GEORGES BIZET
• Jeux d'enfants
• PETER CORNELIUS
• Chorgesange
• PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
• String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11

Opera

• GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
• Ali Baba
• GIUSEPPE VERDI
• Aida

Musical Theatre

• GENEVIEVE DE BRABANT
• London production
• THE MASCOT
• London production
• LA MASCOTTE
• Vienna production
• LE ROI CAROTTE
• London production
• THESPIS

• London production