Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 13 January:   JAMES V. MONACO = Italian-born US composer = [died: 1945]
• 27 January:   JEROME KERN = American composer of musical theatre and popular music = [died: 1945]
• 9 February:   ALBAN BERG = Austrian composer = [died: 1935]
• 12 February:   JAMES SCOTT = African-American ragtime composer = [died: 1938]
• 16 February:   WILL FYFFE = Scottish comedian and singer = [died: 1947]
• 15 March:   BERTHA RAFFETTO = American singer = [died: 1952]
• 5 May:   AGUSTÍN BARRIOS = Paraguayan composer = [died: 1944]
• 14 May:   OTTO KLEMPERER = German conductor and composer = [died: 1973]
• 12 July:   GEORGE BUTTERWORTH = English composer = [died: 1916]
• 17 July:   BENJAMIN DALE = English composer = [died: 1943]
• 21 October:   EGON WELLESZ = Austrian-born British composer = [died: 1974]
• 25 October:   SAM M. LEWIS = Jewish-American lyricist = [died: 1959]
• 19 December:   JOE "KING" OLIVER = American jazz musician = [died: 1938]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 25 October: JOHANNES BRAHMS' Symphony No. 4 is premiered in Meiningen.


• Undated:
• Tin Pan Alley group of popular song writers & publishers forms in New York City
• GILBERT & SULLIVAN's The Mikado premieres in London

Published Popular Music

• "American Patrol" = music by F. W. MEACHAM
• "The Boy In The Gallery" = lyrics & music by GEORGE WARE
• "Dars a Lock on de Chicken Coop Door" = by SAM LUCAS
• "Funny Things They Do Upon The Sly" = lyrics by G. W. HUNTER & JOHN COOKE Jnr; music by G. W. HUNTER
• "Open Road" = by JOHANN STRAUSS II
• "Saffi's Aria" = by JOHANN STRAUSS II
• "Some Sweet Day" = by EDWARD L. PARK & WILLIAM HOWARD DOANE
• "This Is The House That Jerry Built" = lyrics by T. S. LONSDALE; music by W. G. EATON
• "What Cheer 'Ria" = lyrics by WILL HERBERT; music by BESSIE BELLWOOD
• From the score of THE MIKADO:
• "A More Humane Mikado" ("Let the Punishment fit the Crime")
• "The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring"
• "There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast"
• "Three Little Maids From School"
• "A Wand'ring Minstrel I"

Classical Music

• ALEXANDER BORODIN
• String Quartet No. 2 in D
• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Symphony No. 4 op. 98 in E minor
• GEORGE WHITEFIELD CHADWICK
• String Quartet No. 3 in D
• ANTONÍN DVORÁK
• Symphony No. 7 op. 70 in D minor
• ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
• Stenka Razin
• JEAN SIBELIUS
• String Quartet in E-flat
• PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
• Manfred Symphony
• JOSÉ VIANNA DA MOTTA
• Piano Concerto in A

Opera

• FROMENTAL HALÉVY, completed by GEORGES BIZET
• Noé given its first performance at Karlsruhe.
• JULES MASSENET
• Le Cid
• ANDRÉ MESSAGER
• La Béarnaise
• EMILE PESSARD
• Tabarin premiered on January 12 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra, Paris
• AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
• Marion Delorme
• GEORGE STEPHANESCU
• Scaiul barbatilor

Musical Theatre

• ERMINIE [London production]
• Music by: Edward Jakobowski   Libretto by: Claxson Bellamy & Harry Paulton


• Opening: 20 September 1885 @ The Royal Lyceum Theatre, London


• THE MIKADO [London production]
• Written by William S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan


• DER ZIGEUNERBARON (THE GYPSY BARON) [Vienna production]
• Music by Johann Strauss II