Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 4 (or 5) January:   NIKOLAI ROSLAVETS = Ukrainian composer = [died: 1944]
• 6 February:   KARL WEIGL = Austrian composer = [died: 1949]
• 18 March:   PAUL LE FLEM = French composer = [died: 1984]
• 23 March:   EGON PETRI = Dutch pianist = [died: 1962]
• 25 March:   BÉLA BARTÓK = Hungarian composer = [died: 1945]
• 15 April:   DAVID JOHN THOMAS = Welsh composer = [died: 1928]
• 20 April:   NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY = Russian composer and teacher of Polish birth = [died: 1950]
• 11 May:   JAN VAN GILSE = Dutch composer = [died: 1944]
• 15 August:   TED SNYDER = American composer and music publisher = [died: 1965]
• 19 August:   GEORGE ENESCU = Romanian composer = [died: 1955]
• 29 August:   EDVIN KALLSTENIUS = Swedish composer = [died: 1967]
• 22 November:   ETHEL LEVEY = American singer, dancer & actress = [died: 1955]
• 28 November:   STEFAN ZWEIG = Austrian librettist of Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman) = [died: 1942]
• 3 December:   HENRY FILLMORE = American musician, composer, publisher, and bandleader = [died: 1956]
• 24 December:   CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN = American composer and songwriter = [died: 1946]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 10 February: OFFENBACH's Tales of Hoffmann debuts in Paris
• 9 November: JOHANNES BRAHMS' Piano Concerto No. 2 is given its public premiere in Budapest
• 4 December: PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY's Violin Concerto is premiered in Vienna

Published Popular Music

• "Good Bye!" = by FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI
• "Loch Lomond" = (traditional Scottish song)
• "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" = (traditional Scottish folk song)
• "Slowly and Sadly" (President Garfield Memorial Tribute) = by ARABELLA M. ROOT

Classical Music

• VICTOR BENDIX
• Symphony No. 1 in C op. 16 Mountain Climbing
• ALEXANDER BORODIN
• String Quartet #2 in D
• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Tragic Overture op. 81 revised; Nänie op. 82
• MAX BRUCH
• Kol Nidre for cello and orchestra finished
• EMMANUEL CHABRIER
• Pièces pittoresques for piano
• GABRIEL FAURÉ & ANDRÉ MESSAGER
• Messe des pecheurs de Villerville
• CÉSAR FRANCK
• Rébecca (oratorio)
• FRANZ LISZT
• Nuages Gris
• GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI
• Fantasia for piano op. 51
• CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
• Septet op. 65 for piano, trumpet and strings
• Hymne a Victor Hugo
• CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR
• First Sonata for Piano and Violin op. 50

Opera

• PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
• Joan Of Arc
• LEOS JANACEK
• Sarka

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 10 January 1881 @ Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, NY
• SALVIATI, OR THE SILENT MAN [Original production]
  (Play, Drama)
• Written by: William Seymour
• Closing: 16 January 1881


• Opening: 10 February 1881 @ Opéra-Comique, Paris
• LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN [Original Paris production]
  (Opéra fantastique)
• Music by: Jacques Offenbach;   Librettist: Jules Barbier
  Based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 23 April 1881 @ the Opera-Comique Theatre, London, transferring to the Savoy Theatre on 10 October 1881


• PATIENCE [London production]
  (Operetta)
• written by Gilbert and Sullivan
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 578


• Opening: 5 May 1881 @ Bijou Theatre, New York, NY
• THE MASCOT [Original production]
  (Musical, Opera)
• Libretto by: Edmond Audran
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 22 September 1881 @ Standard Theatre, New York, NY
• PATIENCE [Original production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: November 1881 @ Daly's Theatre, New York, NY
• THE PASSING REGIMENT [Original production]
  (Musical, Comedy)
• Closing: February 1882


• Opening: 7 November 1881 @ Haverly's 14th Street Theatre, New York, NY
• DEACON CRANKETT [Revival production]
  (Play)
• Written by: John Habberton
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 5 December 1881 @ Union Square Theatre, New York, NY
• THE LIGHTS O' LONDON [Original production]
  (Play)
• Written by: George R. Sims
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 19 December 1881 @ Bijou Theatre, New York, NY
• OLIVETTE [Revival production]
  (Musical, Comedy, Opera)
• Music by: Edmond Audran;   Libretto by: Henri Chivot
• Closing: 26 December 1881               Performance Count: 10