Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 6 January:   ALEXANDER SCRIABIN = Russian composer = [died: 1915]
• 11 January:   PAUL GRAENER = German conductor and composer = [died: 1944]
• 16 January:   HENRI BÜSSER = French conductor and composer = [died: 1973]
• 23 January:   ADELINA DE LARA = British pianist and composer = [died: 1961]
• 6 March:   BEN HARNEY = American ragtime pianist and songwriter = [died: 1938]
• 7 March:   VASILY ANDREYEVICH ZOLOTARYOV = Russian composer = [died: 1964]
• 8 March:   PAUL JUON = Russian-Swiss violinist and composer = [died: 1940]
• 10 March:   FELIX BOROWSKI = British/American composer and music teacher of Polish descent = [died: 1956]
• 19 March:   SERGEI DIAGHILEV = Russian choreographer = [died: 1929]
• 20 March:   BERNHARD SEKLES = German composer and music teacher = [died: 1934]
• 30 March:   SERGEY NIKIFOROVICH VASILENKO = Russian composer = [died: 1956]
• 1 April:   TADEUSZ JOTEYKO = Polish composer = [died: 1932]
• 29 April:   EYVIND ALNÆS = Norwegian composer, pianist, organist and choir director = [died: 1932]
• 1 May:   HUGO ALFVÉN = Swedish composer = [died: 1960]
• 7 July:   JUAN LAMONTE DE GRIGNON = Catalan Spanish pianist, composer and orchestra director = [died: 1949]
• 8 July:   HARRY VON TILZER = United States songwriter = [died: 1946]
• 18 July:   JULIUS FUČÍK = Czech composer = [died: 1916]
• 20 July:   DÉODAT DE SÉVERAC = French composer = [died: 1921]
• 10 August:   BILL JOHNSON = American jazz musician = [died: 1972]
• 15 August:
• HAROLD FRASER-SIMSON = English composer and songwriter = [died: 1944]
• RUBIN GOLDMARK = American composer = [died: 1936]
• 12 October:   RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS = English composer = [died: 1958]
• 29 November:   ANNA VON MILDENBURG = Austrian soprano = [died: 1947]
• 20 December:   LORENZO PEROSI = Italian composer = [died: 1956]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 24 June: KARL MULLER-HARTUNG founds an "Orchesterschule" ("Orchestra School") at Weimar.


• Undated:
• FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE takes up musical composition again after a long break.
• TOMÁS BRETÓN and RUPERTO CHAPI receive the first prize of the Madrid Conservatory.

Published Popular Music

• "Moonlight on the Potomac" = by JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
• "Only a Dream" = by GEORGE COOPER & WILLIAM VINCENT WALLACE
• "You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry" = by HARRY LINN & ROLLIN HOWARD

Classical Music

• GEORGES BIZET
• L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1 from the incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name
• EDVARD GRIEG
• Piano Concerto in A minor (op. 16)
• FRANZ PAUL LACHNER
• Octet for wind, opus 156

Opera

• GEORGES BIZET
• Djamileh
• GIALDINO GIALDINI
• La secchia rapita premiered at the Teatro Goldoni, Florence
• ALEXANDRE CHARLES LECOCQ
• Les Cent Vierges
• MIGUEL MARQUÉS
• Justos por pecadores
• KAREL MIRY
• De dichter en zijn droombeeld (opera in 4 acts, libretto by Hendrik Conscience, premiered on December 2 in Brussels)
• De twee zusters (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
• MODEST MUSSORGSKY
• Boris Gudonov, Revised Version

Musical Theatre

• LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT
• Brussels production
• LA VIE PARISIENNE
• London production

Publications

• RICHARD WAGNER = Uber die Benennung "Musikdrama"