Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 4 January:   JOSEF SUK = Czech composer and violinist = [died: 1935]
• 6 February:   DAVID EVANS = Welsh composer = [died: 1948]
• 20 February:   MARY GARDEN = Scottish operatic soprano = [died: 1967]
• 31 March:   HENRI MARTEAU = French composer and violinist = [died: 1934]
• 5 July:   ANNA NORDQVIST = Swedish harpsichordist = [died: 1920]
• 26 July:   SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY = Russian-born conductor and double-bassist = [died: 1951]
• 9 August:   REYNALDO HAHN = French composer and conductor = [died: 1947]
• 13 September:   ARNOLD SCHOENBERG = Austrian composer = [died: 1951]
• 21 September:   GUSTAV HOLST = English composer = [died: 1934]
• 20 October:   CHARLES IVES = American composer = [died: 1954]
• 12 November:   BERT WILLIAMS = West Indian/American entertainer = [died: 1922]
• 15 November:   ALBERTO ZELMAN = Australian conductor = [died: 1927]
• 13 December:   JOSEF LHÉVINNE = Russian pianist = [died: 1944]
• 22 December:   FRANZ SCHMIDT = Austrian composer = [died: 1939]
• 25 December:   LINA CAVALIERI = Italian glamorous opera singer = [died: 1944]
• 31 December:   ERNEST AUSTIN = English composer = [died: 1947]

Timeline of Musical Events

• Undated:
• RICHARD WAGNER moves into the villa at Bayreuth.
• FRANZ XAVER HABERL founds a school for church musicians at Regensburg.

Published Popular Music

• "Crimson Roses In the Heather" = by CAROLINE DANA HOWE & WILLIAM HOWARD DOANE
• "Laughing Eyes Of Blue" (performed by ELIZA WEATHERSBY in the burlesque musical Evangeline) = lyrics by J. CHEEVER GOODWIN; music by EDWARD E. RICE
• "Oh! Dat Watermelon!" = by LUKE SCHOOLCRAFT

Classical Music

• ANTON BRUCKNER
• Symphony No. 4
• ALBERT DIETRICH
• Violin Concerto
• ANTONÍN DVORAK
• String Quartet No. 7 opus 16 in A minor
• FRIEDRICH KIEL
• Christus (oratorio)
• EDOUARD LALO
• Symphonie Espagnole opus 21 in D minor
• MODEST PETROVICH MUSSORGSKY
• Pictures at an Exhibition (for piano)
• PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
• Piano Concerto No. 1
• GIUSEPPE VERDI
• Requiem

Opera

• ALFRED CELLIER
• The Sultan of Mocha (premiered at Manchester)
• GIALDINO GIALDINI
• L'Idolo cinese (premiered at the Teatro delle Logge, in Florence)
• KAREL MIRY
• Het arme kind (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered in Ghent)
• EMILE PESSARD
• Don Quichotte (premiered on February 13 at the Salle Erard, in Paris)
• JOHANN STRAUSS II
• Die Fledermaus

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 3 June 1874 @ Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, NY
• OLIVER TWIST [Revival production]
  (Play)
• Based on the novel by Charles Dickens;   Book adapted by Augustin Daly
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 27 July 1874 @ Niblo's Gardens, New York, NY, before moving to Boston
• EVANGELINE [Original production]
  (a US burlesque musical based upon a poem by Longfellow)
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 16


• Opening: 10 August 1874 @ Booth's Theatre, New York, NY
• BELLE LAMAR [Original production]
  (Play)
• Written by: Dion Boucicault
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 25 August 1874 @ Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, NY
• WHAT SHOULD SHE DO?; or, JEALOUSY [Original production]
  (Play)
• Written by: Augustin Daly
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 17 October 1874 @ Venue Unknown, New York, NY
• MOORCROFT [Original production]
  (Play)
• Written by: Bronson Howard
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 14 November 1874 @ Wallack's Theatre, New York, NY
• THE SHAUGHRAUN [Original production]
  (Play)
• Written by: Dion Boucicault
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 21 December 1874 @ Union Square Theatre, New York, NY
• THE TWO ORPHANS [Original production]
  (Play)
• Written by: Eugene Cormon, Adolphe D'Ennery
• Closing: 15 June 1875               Performance Count: 180


• Opening: 1874 @ London
• WHITTINGTON [London production]
• Closing: date unknown