Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 13 January:   SOPHIE TUCKER = Russian/Ukrainian-born American singer, comedian, actress and radio personality = [died: 1966]
• 22 February:   YORK BOWEN = English pianist and composer = [died: 1961]
• 17 March:   ALCIDE NUNEZ = American clarinetist = [died: 1934]
• 18 March:   JOE BURKE = American pianist, composer and actor = [died: 1950]
• 23 April:   JURGIS KARNAVIČIUS = Lithuanian composer = [died: 1941]
• 19 May:   ARTHUR MEULEMANS = Flemish composer , conductor and music educator = [died: 1966]
• 27 May:   MAX BROD = German-speaking Czech Jewish, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist = [died: 1968]
• 13 August:   EDWIN GRASSE = American composer and violinist = [died: 1954]
• 17 September:   CHARLES TOMLINSON GRIFFES = American composer = [died: 1920]
• 24 September:   JONNY HEYKENS = Dutch composer and orchestra leader = [died: 1945]
• 6 November:
• MAY BRAHE = Australian composer and songwriter = [died: 1956]
• LUDOMIR ROZYCKI = Polish composer = [died: 1953]
• 23 November:   GUY BOLTON = British-American librettist = [died: 1979]
• 30 November:   TURE RANGSTRÖM = Swedish composer = [died: 1947]
• 29 December:   FOSTER ADOLPH REYNOLDS = American Brass instrument maker = [died: 1960 at work]


• date unknown:
• ALFRED REYNOLDS = English composer = [died: 1969]

Timeline of Musical Events

• late December: Seventh Symphony of ANTON BRUCKNER is premiered in Leipzig, bringing the composer his first great success.

Published Popular Music

• "Oh My Darling, Clementine" = lyrics & music by PERCY MONTROSE
• "The Coon's Salvation Army" = by SAM LUCAS
• "The Fountain in the Park" aka "While Strolling Through the Park One Day" = lyrics & music by ED HALEY
• "The Golden Wedding" = music by GABRIEL-MARIE
• "Love's Old Sweet Song" = lyrics by GEORGE CLIFTON BINGHAM; music by JAMES LYNAM MOLLOY
• "March of the Plumed Knight" = by CHARLES B. MORRELL & WILLIAM HOWARD DOANE
• "My Thoughts Are of Thee" = by SAM LUCAS
• "Otchi Tchorniya" = by Y. P. GREBYONKA & F. HERMANN
• "Rest, Comrades, Rest (Memorial Hymn)" = by O. B. ORMSBY
• "Rock-a-bye Baby" = lyrics & music by EFFIE I. CANNING
• "When the Heather Blooms Again" = by FRANCES JANE CROSBY & WILLIAM HOWARD DOANE

Classical Music

• ANTON BRUCKNER
• Te Deum (begun 1881)
• HENRI DUPARC
• La Vie Antérieure
• CÉSAR FRANCK
• Prélude, Chorale et Fugue
• ROBERT FUCHS
• Symphony No. 1 in C
• ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
• String Quartet No. 2 Opus 10 in F major
• CHARLES GOUNOD
• Mors et Vita (oratorio)
• HUGO WOLF
• String Quartet in D minor (begun 1878)

Opera

• EDUARD CAUDELLA
• Hatmanul Baltag
• LUIGI MANCINELLI
• Isora di Provenza
• MIGUEL MARQUÉS
• El reloj de Lucerna
• (libretto by Marcos Zapata, premiered in Madrid)
• JULES MASSENET
• Manon
• KARL MILLÖCKER
• Gasparone
• VIKTOR NESSLER
• Der Trompeter von Säkkingen
• GIACOMO PUCCINI
• Le Villi
• CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
• The Canterbury Pilgrims
• FELIX WEINGARTNER
• Sakuntala

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 5 January 1884 @ the Savoy Theatre, London
• PRINCESS IDA [West End production]
  (Musical, Comedy, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 246


• Opening: 11 February 1884 @ the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York
• PRINCESS IDA [Original Broadway production]
  (Musical, Comedy, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: 22 March 1884               Performance Count: 48


• Opening: 12 April 1884 @ the Alhambra Theatre, London
• THE BEGGAR STUDENT [West End 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               Performance Count: 112


• Opening: 4 September 1884 @ the Bijou Theatre, New York
• ADONIS [Original Broadway production]
  (Musical, Burlesque)
• Music by: Edward E. Rice;   Libretto by: William Gill, Edward E. Rice
• Closing: 17 April 1886               Performance Count: 603


• Opening: 1884 in London
• THE GRAND MOGUL [West End production]
• Closing: date unknown