Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 23 January:   RUTLAND BOUGHTON = English composer = [died: 1960]
• 16 February:   SELIM PALMGREN = Finnish composer = [died: 1951]
• 26 February:   EMMY DESTINN = Czech soprano = [died: 1930]
• 28 February:   ARTUR KAPP = Estonian composer = [died: 1952]
• 4 March:   EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE = American songwriter = [died: 1951]
• 23 March:   FRANZ SCHREKER = Austrian composer, conductor and teacher = [died: 1934]
• 29 March:   ALBERT VON TILZER = American songwriter = [died: 1956]
• 25 May:   BILL "BOJANGLES" ROBINSON = American tap dancer, singer, actor = [died: 1949]
• 3 July:   GEORGE M. COHAN = American songwriter, entertainer = [died: 1942]
• 5 July:   JOSEPH HOLBROOKE = English composer = [died: 1958]
• 12 July:   PERCY HILDER MILES = English composer, violinist and teacher = [died: 1922]
• 17 July:   EDWARD MADDEN = American lyricist = [died: 1952]
• 22 July:   ERNEST BALL = American composer = [died: 1927]
• 25 July:   HEINRICH GEBHARD = German-American composer = [died: 1963]
• 18 August:   FRITZ BRUN = Swiss composer and conductor = [died: 1959]
• 22 August:   EDWARD JOHNSON = Canadian tenor = [died: 1959]
• 17 September:   VINCENZO TOMMASINI = Italian composer = [died: 1950]
• 19 October:   ALPHONSE PICOU = American clarinettist = [died: 1961]
• 4 November:   JEAN SCHWARTZ = Hungarian songwriter = [died: 1956]
• 23 November:   ANDRÉ CAPLET = French composer and conductor = [died: 1925]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 9 April: FRANZ BERWALD's Symphony No. 4 receives its premiere performance, conducted by LUDWIG NORMAN.
• 28 May: GILBERT & SULLIVAN's H.M.S. Pinafore debuts in London

Published Popular Music

• "Aloha 'Oe" = lyrics & music by QUEEN LILIUOKALANI of Hawaii
• "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" = lyrics & music by JAMES A. BLAND
• "De Gospel Raft" = by FRANK DUMONT
• "Emmet's Lullaby" = by JOSEPH K. EMMET
• From HMS Pinafore: (lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN)
• "I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore"
• "I Am The Ruler Of The Queen's Navee"
• "I'm Called Little Buttercup"
• "Kind Captain"
• "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore"
• "When I Was a Lad"
• "In The Evening By the Moonlight" = lyrics & music by JAMES A. BLAND
• "Keep In De Middle Ob De Road" = lyrics & music by WILL HAYS
• "Ten Little Injuns" = lyrics & music by SEPTIMUS WINNER

Classical Music

• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Motets Op. 74
• Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
• ANTON BRUCKNER
• Symphony No. 4 (Bruckner) - 2nd version
• Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner)
• FERRUCCIO BUSONI
• Piano Concerto in D, op. 17, for piano and string orchestra
• GEORGE WHITEFIELD CHADWICK
• String Quartet No. 1
• FELIX OTTO DESSOFF
• String Quartet in F, Op. 7
• ANTONÍN DVORAK
• Serenade for Wind Instruments (Dvorak) (op. 44/B. 77)
• String Sextet (Dvorak), (op. 48/B. 80)
• Slavonic Dances, Set 1 (op. 46/B. 83)
• Three Slavonic Rhapsodies (op. 45/B. 86)
• GABRIEL FAURE
• Chanson Apres un reve (Op. 7 No. 1)
• NIELS GADE
• Capriccio for violin and orchestra in A minor
• HANS HUBER
• Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 36
• VINCENT d'INDY
• La foret enchantee
• EDOUARD LALO
• Fantaisie norvegienne
• GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI
• Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
• Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 45
• JOACHIM RAFF
• Symphony No. 9 Im Sommer, Op. 208
• JOSEF RHEINBERGER
• Mass in E-flat (Cantus Missæ) for double choir, Op. 109
• Organ Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 111
• Trio for Piano and Strings No. 2 in A, Op. 112
• Piano Quintet in C, Op. 114
• BERNHARD SCHOLZ
• String Quintet Op. 47
• SERGEI TANEYEV
• Symphony no 2 in B flat minor
• PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
• Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36
• Violin Concerto in D major

Opera

• ALFRED CELLIER
• After All!
• CHARLES GOUNOD
• Polyeucte (opera)
• CHARLES EDOUARD LEFEBVRE
• Lucrece
• MIGUEL MARQUES
• El anillo de hierro (libretto by Marcos Zapata, premiered in Madrid)
• JOSEPH PARRY
• Blodwen
• EMILE PESSARD
• Le char premiered on January 18 at the Theatre de l'Opera-Comique, Paris
• Le Capitaine Fracasse premiered on July 2 at the Theatre Lyrique, Paris
• JOACHIM RAFF
• Benedetto Marcello

Musical Theatre

• H.M.S. PINAFORE
• by Gilbert and Sullivan
• London production


• MADAME FAVART
• by Jacques Offenbach
• Paris production