Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 11 February:   PAUL VON KLENAU = Danish composer = [died: 1946]
• 10 March:   MARIA BARRIENTOS = Spanish operatic soprano = [died: 1946]
• 16 March:   ERNIE HARE = US singer = [died: 1939]
• 19 March:   JOSEF MATTHIAS HAUER = Austrian composer and theorist = [died: 1959]
• 1 April:   MALCOLM MCEACHERN = Australian concert singer = [died: 1945]
• 6 April:   VERNON DALHART = American singer = [died: 1948]
• 13 April:   ALEXANDER VASILYEVICH ALEXANDROV = Russian Soviet composer = [died: 1946]
• 4 May:   NIKOLAI MALKO = Ukrainian conductor = [died: 1961]
• 5 May:   PETAR KONJOVIĆ = Serbian composer = [died: 1970]
• 26 May:   MAMIE SMITH = American singer = [died: 1946]
• 28 May:
• GEORGE DYSON = English musician and composer = [died: 1964]
• VÁCLAV TALICH = Czech conductor = [died: 1961]
• RICCARDO ZANDONAI = Italian opera composer = [died: 1944]
• 7 July:   TOIVO KUULA = Finnish conductor and composer = [died: 1918]
• 25 July:   ALFREDO CASELLA = Italian composer = [died: 1947]
• 29 July:   MANUEL INFANTE = Spanish pianist and composer = [died: 1958]
• 18 September:   GERALD TYRWHITT-WILSON, 14th Baron Berners = British composer = [died: 1950]
• 2 October:   FRICO KAFENDA = Slovak composer = [died: 1963]
• 22 October:   VICTOR JACOBI = Hungarian, operetta composer = [died: 1921]
• 8 November:   ARNOLD BAX = English composer = [died: 1953]
• 3 December:   ANTON WEBERN = Austrian composer = [died: 1945]
• 22 December:   EDGARD VARÈSE = French(-born) composer = [died: 1965]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 22 October: Opening of the first Metropolitan Opera House.


• Undated:
• FRIEDRICH KIEL is involved in a traffic accident from which he never completely recovered.
• The Gretsch Company, manufacturers of drums, banjos and guitars, opens in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Published Popular Music

• "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother" = lyrics by HENRY MILLER; music by JOSEPH P. SKELLY
• "The Farmer In The Dell" = (trad)
• "La Golondrina" = music by NARCISO SERRADELL
• "Polly Wolly Doodle (All The Day)" = (trad)
• "Ring Dem Heavenly Bells" = by SAM LUCAS
• "She Does The Fandango All Over The Place" = lyrics & music by G. W. HUNT
• "There Is A Tavern In The Town" = (anon)
• "Transit Of Venus March" = music by JOHN PHILIP SOUSA

Classical Music

• ISAAC ALBENIZ
• Barcarola for piano No. 1
• ANTON ARENSKY
• Piano Concerto in F minor, op. 2
• Symphony No. 1 in B minor
• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Symphony No. 3
• EMMANUEL CHABRIER
• Espana, rapsodie pour orchestre
• GEORGE WHITEFIELD CHADWICK
• Thalia (concert overture)
• ANTONIN DVORAK
• Scherzo capriccioso, op. 66/B. 131
• CHARLES GOUNOD
• The Redemption (oratorio)
• FRANZ LISZT
• La lugubre gondola (possible date of early version)
• PABLO DE SARASATE
• Carmen Fantasy
• SERGEI TANEYEV
• Canzona for Clarinet and Strings in F minor
• EMIL WALDTEUFEL
• Estudiantina

Opera

• ALFREDO CATALANI
• Dejanice
• CESAR CUI
• Prisoner of the Caucasus
• CHARLES-EDOUARD LEFEBVRE
• Le Trésor
• premiered in Angers
• MIGUEL MARQUES
• La cruz de fuego
• KAREL MIRY
• De kleine patriot
• (opera in 4 acts, libretto by J. Hoste, premiered on December 23 in Brussels)

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 3 October 1883 @ the Neues Friedrich Wilhelmstadisches Theater, Berlin
• EINE NACHT IN VENEDIG (A NIGHT IN VENICE) [Original German production]
  (Operetta)
• Music by Johann Strauss II;   Libretto was by F. Zell and Richard Genée
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 9 October 1883 @ the Theater an der Wien, Vienna
• EINE NACHT IN VENEDIG (A NIGHT IN VENICE) [Original Austrian production]
  (Operetta)
• Music by Johann Strauss II;   Libretto was by F. Zell and Richard Genée
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 44


• Opening: 5 November 1883 @ the New Theatre Comique, New York, NY
• CORDELIA'S ASPIRATIONS [Original Broadway production]
  (Musical, Play)
• Edward Harrigan & David Braham
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 176