Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 12 January:   ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI = Italian composer = [died: 1948]
• 29 January:
• HAVERGAL BRIAN = British composer = [died: 1972]
• LUDOLF NIELSEN = Danish composer = [died: 1939]
• 2 February:   GIOVANNI ZENATELLO = Italian tenor = [died: 1949]
• 28 February:   JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER = American composer = [died: 1951]
• 11 March:   CARL RUGGLES = American composer = [died: 1971]
• 2 June:   HAKON BØRRESEN = Danish composer = [died: 1954]
• 5 June:   TONY JACKSON = American jazz musician [died: 1921]
• 14 August:   FLORRIE FORDE = Australian-born English music hall singer = [died: 1940]
• 16 August:   KARL HOSCHNA = Bohemian-born American composer = [died: 1911]
• 15 September:   BRUNO WALTER = German-born conductor = [died: 1962]
• 23 November:   MANUEL DE FALLA = Spanish composer = [died: 1946]
• 11 December:   MIECZYSLAW KARLOWICZ = Polish composer = [died: 1909]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 24 February: Incidental music composed by EDVARD GRIEG for HENRIK IBSEN's Peer Gynt premieres.
• 16 August: RICHARD WAGNER's Siegfried debuts in Bayreuth


• Also in 1876:-
• The library Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is first published in the USA by MELVIL DEWEY
• Music = 780
• Recreational & performing arts = 790

Published Popular Music

• "The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" = by ANDREW LANG
• "Gay As A Lark" = by SEPTIMUS WINNER
• "Grandfather's Clock" = by HENRY CLAY WORK
• "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" = by THOMAS PAYNE WESTENDORF
• "Old Aunt Jemima" = by JAMES GRACE
• "Rose of Killarney" = by GEORGE COOPER & JOHN ROGERS THOMAS
• "When The Great Red Dawn is Shining" = (anon)

Classical Music

• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Symphony No. 1 completed
• PIETRO ABBA CORNAGLIA
• Requiem
• FELIX DRAESEKE
• Six Fugues for piano
• Dammerungsraume: Five piano pieces, op 14
• ANTONÍN DVORAK
• Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33
• CESAR FRANCK
• Les Eolides
• BENJAMIN GODARD
• Concerto Romantique
• BEDRICH SMETANA
• String Quartet No. 1 in E minor From My Life
• CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR
• Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-3 Op. 13

Opera

• AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
• La Gioconda
• ARRIGO BOITO
• Mefistofele
• LUIGI DENZA
• Wallenstein
• BEDRICH SMETANA
• The Kiss
• RICHARD WAGNER
• Siegfried
• Gotterdammerung