Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 15 January:   HENRY BURR = Canadian popular tenor, prolific early recording artist = [died: 1941]
• 11 February:
• GHEORGHE CUCU = Romanian composer = [died: 1932]
• JOE JORDAN = African American musician and composer = [died: 1971]
• 28 February:   GERALDINE FARRAR = American operatic soprano = [died: 1967]
• 5 March:   PAULINE DONALDA = Canadian operatic soprano = [died: 1970]
• 18 March:   GIAN FRANCESCO MALIPIERO = Italian composer and musicologist = [died: 1973]
• 24 March:   GINO MARINUZZI = Italian conductor and composer = [died: 1945]
• 17 April:   ARTUR SCHNABEL = Austrian pianist = [died: 1951]
• 18 April:   LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI = British conductor = [died: 1977]
• 23 April:   ALBERT COATES = English conductor and composer = [died: 1953]
• 6 May:   GEORGI ATANASOV = Bulgarian composer = [died: 1931]
• 11 May:   JOSEPH MARX = Austrian composer and critic = [died: 1964]
• 12 May:   KYRYLO STETSENKO = Ukrainian conductor, composer, critic and teacher = [died: 1922]
• 4 June:   ERWIN LENDVAI = Hungarian composer and choral conductor = [died: 1949]
• 17 June:   IGOR STRAVINSKY = Russian composer = [died: 1971]
• 15 August:   MARION BAUER = American composer = [died: 1955]
• 6 September?:   JOHN POWELL = American composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist = [died: 1963]
• 6 October:   KAROL SZYMANOWSKI = Polish pianist and composer = [died: 1937]
• 8 December:   MANUEL MARÍA PONCE = Mexican composer and music teacher = [died: 1948]
• 9 December:   JOAQUÍN TURINA = Spanish composer = [died: 1949]
• 16 December:   ZOLTÁN KODÁLY = Hungarian composer = [died: 1967]

Timeline of Musical Events

• January: RICHARD WAGNER completes Parsifal


• Undated:
• Helsinki University Chorus (Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat) is founded
• GASTAV MAHLER is employed at Olomouc
• RICHARD STRAUSS enters Munich University

Published Popular Music

• "Baa! Baa! Baa!" = lyrics by WALTER GREENAWAY; music by VINCENT DAVIES
• "The Band Quartette" = by CHARLES A. WHITE
• "Bow, Bow, Ye Lower Middle Classes" = lyrics by WILLIAM S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "Goodbye, My Lover, Goodbye" = (trad Eng)
• "In My Fust 'Usband's Time" = lyrics & music by HARRY NICHOLLS
• "The Old Miser" = by CHARLES A. WHITE
• "The Skaters' Waltz" = music by EMILE WALDTEUFEL
• "Sweet Violets" = by JOSEPH EMMET
• "Up Went The Price" lyrics & music by GEORGE WARE
• From the score of IOLANTHE:
• "I'm Very Much Pained" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "Loudly Let The Trumpets Bray" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "The Nightmare Song" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "None Shall Part Us" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "Oh, Foolish Fay" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "Tho' P'raps I May Incur Your Blame" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "Though The Views Of The House Have Diverged" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "Welcome To Our Hearts Again" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "When All Night Long A Chap Remains" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "When Britain Really Ruled The Waves" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "When I Went To The Bar" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN

Classical Music

• ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
• Symphony no. 1, String Quartet no. 1
• CHARLES GOUNOD
• The Redemption (oratorio)
• HANS HUBER
• Symphony no. 1 "Wilhelm Tell"
• MIKHAIL IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
• Yar-khmel (Spring Overture)
• BEDRICH SMETANA
• String Quartet no. 2
• JOHANN STRAUSS
• Voices of Spring
• PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
• 1812 Overture

Opera

• ADOLF NEUENDORFF
• Don Quixote
• NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
• The Snow Maiden
• RICHARD WAGNER
• Parsifal

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 18 February 1882 @ The Lincoln Hall
• THE SMUGGLERS [Original Broadway production]
  (Musical)
• Music by: John Philip Sousa
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 13 March 1882 @ Windsor Theatre, New York, NY
• THE JOLLY BACHELORS! [Original production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Edward I. Darling;   Libretto by: John A. Stevens
• Closing: 18 March 1882               Performance Count: 8


• Opening: 16 October 1882 @ Windsor Theatre, New York, NY
• FRIEND AND FOE [Original Broadway production]
  (Musical, Comedy)
• Music by: William J. Scanlan;   Written by: Bartley Campbell;   Lyrics by: William J. Scanlan
• Closing: 21 October 1882               Performance Count: 8


• Opening: 21 October 1882 @ Casino Theatre, New York, NY
• THE QUEEN'S LACE HANDKERCHIEF [Original Broadway production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Johann Strauss, Jr.;   Lyrics by: Heinrich Bohrmann, Julius von St. Albino
• Closing: 28 October 1882               Performance Count: 8


• Opening: 25 November 1882 @ the Savoy Theatre, London


• IOLANTHE [Original London production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: 1 January 1884               Performance Count: 398


• Opening: 25 November 1882 @ the Standard Theatre, New York, NY
• IOLANTHE [Original Broadway production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: 24 February 1883               Performance Count: 105


• Opening: 6 December 1882 the Theater an der Wien, Vienna
• DER BETTELSTUDENT (THE BEGGAR STUDENT) [Original Vienna production]
  (Operetta)
• Music by: Carl Millöcker;   German libretto by Camillo Walzel (under the pseudonym of F. Zell) and Richard Genée
  Based on Les noces de Fernande by Victorien Sardou and The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 30 December 1882 @ Casino Theatre, New York, NY
• THE QUEEN'S LACE HANDKERCHIEF [Original Broadway production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Johann Strauss, Jr.;   Lyrics by: Heinrich Bohrmann, Julius von St. Albino
• Closing: 10 March 1883               Performance Count: 130