Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 2 February:   FRITZ KREISLER = Austrian violinist and composer = [died: 1962]
• 8 February:   GEORGETTE LEBLANC = French operatic soprano = [died: 1941]
• 26 February:   RICHARD WETZ = German composer = [died: 1935]
• 28 February:   VILIAM FIGUŠ-BYSTRÝ = Slovak composer = [died: 1937]
• 7 March:   MAURICE RAVEL = French composer = [died: 1937]
• 5 April:   MISTINGUETT = French actress and singer = [died: 1956]
• May:   PAUL SAREBRESOLE = American ragtime composer = [died: 1911]
• 17 July:   DONALD TOVEY = British composer and musicologist = [died: 1940]
• 9 August:   ALBERT KETÈLBEY = English composer = [died: 1959]
• 18 August:   SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR = English composer = [died: 1912]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 3 March: GEORGES BIZET's Carmen debuts in Paris.
• 6 May: RICHARD WAGNER conducts portions of Gotterdammerung in concert in Vienna (the complete opera is premiered in 1876).


• Undated:
• ROBERT VOLKMANN becomes professor of harmony and counterpoint at the National Academy of Music in Budapest, under FRANZ LISZT.
• Composer ZDENEK FIBICH marries operatic contralto BETTY HANUSOVA, sister of his first wife RUZENA HANUSOVA.

Published Popular Music

• "Angels, Meet Me At the Cross Road" = lyrics & music by WILL HAYS
• "Carve Dat Possum" = by SAM LUCAS & HERBERT HERSHY
• "Dreaming Forever of Thee" = lyrics & music by JOHN HILL HEWITT
• "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" = lyrics & music by THOMAS P. WESTENDORF
• "Nancy Lee" = lyrics by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY; music by STEPHEN ADAMS (pseudonym of MICHAEL MAYBRICK)
• "A Warrior Bold" = lyrics by EDWIN THOMAS; music by STEPHEN ADAMS (pseudonym of MICHAEL MAYBRICK)
• "The Witches Flight (Galop Caprice)" = by HENRY M. RUSSELL

Classical Music

• ALEXANDER BORODIN
• String Quartet No. 1
• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Fifteen Liebeslieder for piano duet
• String Quartet No. 3
• ANTONÍN DVORAK
• Symphony No. 5
• Serenade for Strings
• String Quintet (with double bass) (orig Op. 18)
• Piano Quartet in D
• Piano Trio in Bb
• Moravian duets (for voices and piano)
• GABRIEL FAURE
• Allegro Symphonique (for orchestra)
• Suite for Orchestra
• Les Djinns (for chorus and orchestra)
• EDVARD GRIEG
• incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt
• EDOUARD LALO
• Allegro Symphonique
• JULES MASSENET
• oratorio Eve
• MODEST MUSSORGSKY
• Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death), song cycle for bass voice and piano
• AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
• cantata A Gaetano Donizetti
• NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
• String Quartet No. 1
• CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
• Piano Concerto No. 4
• BEDRICH SMETANA
• Ma vlast (My Country), Six symphonic poems
• TCHAIKOVSKY
• Symphony No. 3
• Swan Lake (Ballet)
• String Quartet

Opera

• CARMEN
• Music by Georges Bizet and libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy.
• first performed in Paris.
• DIE KONIGIN VON SABA
• music by Karl Goldmark and libretto by Salomon Mosenthal.
• ANGELO
• music by Cesar Cui

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 4 February 1875 @ Abbey's Park Theatre, New York, NY
• GIROFLE-GIROFLA [Original Broadway production]
  (Musical, Opera)
• Music by: Charles Le Cocq;  Lyrics by: Eugene Leterrier, Albert Vanloo
• Closing: date unknown          Performance Count: 46


• Opening: 25 March 1875 @ the Royalty Theatre, London
• TRIAL BY JURY [Original production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;  Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 5 June 1875 @ St. James Theatre, transferring on 28 June to Haymarket Theatre, London
• THE ZOO [Original London production]
  (Comic Opera)
• Music: Arthur Sullivan;  Lyrics and Book: Bolton Rowe
• Closing: 10 July 1875


• Opening: 2 October 1875 @ at the Philharmonic Theatre, Islington, London
• THE ZOO [Second production]
  (Comic Opera)
• Music: Arthur Sullivan;  Lyrics and Book: Bolton Rowe
• Closing: 30 October 1875


• Opening: 22 October 1875 @ Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia
• TRIAL BY JURY [Original production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;  Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 15 November 1875 @ Eagle Variety, New York, NY
• TRIAL BY JURY [Original Broadway production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;  Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: 20 November 1875          Performance Count: 8