Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 16 February:   SERGEI BORTKIEWICZ = Russian composer and pianist = [died: 1952]
• 25 May:   BILLY MURRAY = American singer = [died: 1954]
• 14 July:   AGNES NICHOLLS = English operatic soprano = [died: 1959]
• 27 July:   ERNÓ DOHNÁNYI = Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist = [died: 1960]
• 6 September:   BUDDY BOLDEN = African-American ragtime musician = [died: 1931]
• 7 September:   PETAR STOJANOVIC = Hungarian-born Serbian violinist and composer = [died: 1957]
• 15 September:   DAISY WOOD = English music hall singer = [died: 1961]
• 21 November:   SIGFRID KARG-ELERT = German composer = [died: 1933]

Timeline of Musical Events

• Undated:
• THOMAS EDISON invents the phonograph.
• RICHARD WAGNER conducts in London.
• PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY marries ANTONINA MILYUKOVA.
• LUDWIG THUILLE and RICHARD STRAUSS meet as students at Innsbruck. They become lifelong friends.

Published Popular Music

• "Abdul Abulbul Amir" = lyrics & music by PERCY FRENCH
• "Captain Cuff" = lyrics & music by G. W. HUNT
• "Chopsticks" = music by ARTHUR DE LULLI
• "Dear Old Pals" = lyrics & music by G. W. HUNT
• "Early In De Mornin'" = lyrics & music by WILL HAYS
• "In The Gloaming" = lyrics by META ORRED; music by ANNIE FORTESCUE HARRISON (lyrics 1874)
• "Little Daisy's Request" = by ARABELLA M. ROOT
• "The Lost Chord" = lyrics by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER music by Sir ARTHUR SULLIVAN (lyrics 1858)
• "My Name Is John Wellington Wells" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "Phelim O'Toole" = by HARRY BANKS
• "Time Was When Love And I Were Well Acquainted" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN

Classical Music

• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Symphony No. 2 op. 73 in D
• ANTON BRUCKNER
• Symphony No. 3 in D minor (Novak edition)
• FELIX DRAESEKE
• Fata Morgana, op 13
• ANTONÍN DVORAK
• String Quartet no. 9 op. 34 in D minor
• CESAR FRANCK
• Lesson Eolides
• ROBERT FUCHS
• Violin Sonata no. 1 op. 20 in F# minor
• KARL GOLDMARK
• Violin Concerto no. 1 op. 28 in A minor
• EDOUARD LALO
• Cello Concerto
• LEON MINKUS
• La Bayadère (ballet)
• JOACHIM RAFF
• Violin Concerto no. 2 op. 206 in A minor
• JOSEF RHEINBERGER
• Violin Sonata no. 2 op. 105 in E minor
• CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
• La Jeunesse d'Hercule

Opera

• EMMANUEL CHABRIER
• Jean Hunyade
• PETER HEISE
• Monarch and Constable
• JULES MASSENET
• Le roi de Lahore
• CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
• Samson et Dalila
• CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
• The Veiled Prophet of Khorossan

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 22 January 1877 @ Wallack's Theatre, New York, NY
• ALL FOR HER [Original production]
  (Play)
• Written by: Herman Merivale, Palgrave Simpson
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 19 April 1877 @ the Folies-Dramatique, Paris, France
• LES CLOCHES DE CORNEVILLE [Paris production]
  (Opera-Comique)
• Music by Robert Planquette
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 408


• Opening: 16 July 1877 @ Abbey's Park Theatre, New York, NY
• BABY [Original production]
  (Play, Farce)
• Written by: Thomas B. Macdonough
• Closing: 26 August 1877


• Opening: 15 August 1877 @ Union Square Theatre, New York, NY
• PINK DOMINOS [Original production]
  (Play, Farce)
• Written by: James Albery
• Closing: 15 September 1877


• Opening: 22 October 1877 @ Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, NY
• THE CHIMES OF NORMANDY [Original production]
  (Musical, Comedy, Opera)
• Music by: Robert Planquette
• Closing: 10 November 1877               Performance Count: 16


• Opening: 29 October 1877 @ Union Square Theatre, New York, NY
• PINK DOMINOS [Original production]
  (Play, Farce)
• Written by: James Albery
• Closing: 10 November 1877


• Opening: November 1877 @ Union Square Theatre, New York, NY
• THE MOTHER'S SECRET [Original production]
  (Play)
• Written by: A.R. Cazauran
• Closing: 24 December 1877


• Opening: 17 November 1877 @ the Opera Comique, London
• THE SORCERER [London production]
  (Operetta)
• Gilbert & Sullivan
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 175


• Opening: 22 December 1877 @ New Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, NY
• ADRIENNE LECOUVEUR [Revival production]
  (Play)
• Written by: Ernest Legouve, Eugene Scribe
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 26 December 1877 @ Union Square Theatre, New York, NY
• THE MAN OF SUCCESS [Original production]
  (Play)
• Written by: A.R. Cazauran
• Closing: 22 January 1878


• Opening: 1877 @ France
• LE GRAND MOGOL [Marseilles production]
  (Opera)
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 1877 @ London
• ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD [London Revival production]
  (Operetta)
• Music by Jacques Offenbach
• Closing: date unknown