Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 28 January:   ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN = Polish-American pianist = [died: 1982]
• 3 February:   CARLO JACHINO = Italian composer = [died: 1971]
• 7 February:   EUBIE BLAKE = American jazz pianist and composer = [died: 1983]
• 23 February:   OSKAR LINDBERG = Swedish composer = [died: 1955]
• 3 March:   HART WAND = American composer, fiddler, bandleader = [died: 1960]
• 4 March:   VIOLET MACMILLAN = American Broadway star = [died: 1953]
• 5 March:   HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS = Brazilian composer = [died: 1959]
• 7 March:   HEINO ELLER = Estonian composer = [died: 1970]
• 22 March:   CHICO MARX = American piano-playing comedian = [died: 1961]
• 23 March:   ANTHONY VAN HOBOKEN = Dutch musicologist = [died: 1983]
• 25 March:   NICOLAE BRETAN = Romanian opera composer = [died: 1968]
• 10 April:   HEINZ TIESSEN = German composer = [died: 1971]
• 12 May:   BERTHA LEWIS = English operatic contralto = [died: 1931]
• 31 May:   JOSE MARIA USANDIZAGA = Spanish composer = [died: 1915]
• 25 June:   GEORGE ABBOTT = American librettist and director = [died: 1995]
• 2 July:   MARCEL TABUTEAU = French oboist = [died: 1966]
• 29 July:   SIGMUND ROMBERG = Austro-Hungarian-born American composer = [died: 1951]
• 25 August:   FARTEIN VALEN = Norwegian composer = [died: 1952]
• 14 September:   PAUL KOCHANSKI = Polish violinist = [died: 1934]
• 16 September:   NADIA BOULANGER = French composer, conductor and music teacher = [died: 1979]
• 19 September:   ROSITA MARSTINI = French dancer = [died: 1948]
• 6 October:   MARIA JERITZA = Moravian operatic soprano = [died: 1982]
• 11 October:   OSCAR SHAW = American actor and singer = [died: 1967]
• 1 November:   MAX TRAPP = German composer = [died: 1971]
• 6 December:   JOSEPH LAMB = American composer of ragtime music = [died: 1960]
• 7 December:   ERNST TOCH = Austrian composer = [died: 1964]
• 8 December:   VICENTE EMILIO SOJO = Venezuelan musicologist and composer = [died: 1974]
• 12 December:   KURT ATTERBERG = Swedish composer = [died: 1974]
• 24 December:   LUCREZIA BORI = Spanish operatic soprano = [died: 1960]
• 27 December:
• GERTIE GITANA = British music hall singer = [died: 1957]
• BERNARD VAN DIEREN = Dutch composer = [died: 1936]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 5 February: GIUSEPPE VERDI's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
• 12 April: HENRIK IBSEN's "Rosmersholm", premieres in Oslo
• 2 May: G ROSSINI's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence
• 9 May: BUFFALO BILL CODY's Wild West Show opens in London.
• 18 May: EMMANUEL CHABRIERS opera "Le Roi Malgré Luis", premieres in Paris
• 25 May: Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
• 5 September: Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200
• 26 September: EMILE BERLINER patents the Gramophone
• 31 October: RIMSKI-KORSAKOV's "Capricio Espagñol", premieres in St Petersburg
• 23 November: Opera "Trumpeter of Säckingen" 1st American production (NYC)
• 24 November: VICTORIEN SARDOU's "La Tosca", premieres in Paris
• 2 December: Amsterdam's Oscar Carrés Circus Theater opens
• 17 December: GEORGES FEYDEAUS' "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris

Published Popular Music

• "Angels Without Wings" = lyrics & music by GEORGE DANCE
• "Away In The Manger" = lyrics by (anon); music by JAMES RAMSEY MURRAY
• "Calvary" = lyrics by HENRY VAUGHN; music by PAUL RODNEY
• "Comrades" = by FELIX McGLENNON & GEORGE HORNCASTLE
• "The Song That Reached My Heart" = lyrics & music by JULIAN JORDAN
• "Ti! Hi! Tiddelly Hi!" = lyrics & music by JOSEPH TABRAR
• From the score of RUDDIGORE (music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN; lyrics by W. S. GILBERT):
• "I Know A Youth Who Loves A Maid"
• "I Shipped, D'Ye See, In A Revenue Sloop"
• "My Boy, You May Take It From Me"
• "There Grew A Little Flower"
• "When The Night Wind Howls"

Classical Music

• ISAAC ALBÉNIZ
• Sonata for piano Nos. 3, 4 and 5
• Concierto fantástico in A minor
• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102)
• RUPERTO CHAPI
• La Bruja (zarzuela)
• GUSTAVE CHARPENTIER
• Didon (cantata)
• FELIX DRAESEKE
• Sonata for Clarinet (or Violin) and Piano in B♭, Op. 38
• ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK
• Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81
• ROBERT FUCHS
• Symphony No. 2 in E♭, Op. 45
• EDVARD GRIEG
• Third Sonata for Violin and Piano in C minor, opus 45
• ASGER HAMERIK
• Requiem
• SERGEI LYAPUNOV
• Symphony No. 1 in B minor, Op. 12
• JOSÉ VIANNA DA MOTTA
• Piano Concerto in A major
• HANS PFITZNER
• Scherzo in C minor
• JOSEF RHEINBERGER
• Organ Sonata No. 11 in D minor, op. 148
• Suite for organ, violin and cello, op. 149
• CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
• An Irish Symphony (Symphony No. 3 in F minor), Op. 28
• RICHARD STRAUSS
• Violin Sonata in E♭, Op. 18
• HUGO WOLF
• Italian Serenade for string quartet

Opera

• EMMANUEL CHABRIER
• Le roi malgré lui
• CHARLES EDOUARD LEFEBVRE
• Zaïre premiered in Lille
• ADOLF NEUENDORFF
• Prince Waldmeister
• JOHANN STRAUSS II
• Simplicius
• GIUSEPPE VERDI
• Otello

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 22 January 1887 @ the Savoy Theatre, London


• RUDDIGORE [Original "London" production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: 5 November 1887               Performance Count: 288


• Opening: 21 February 1887 @ the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York
• RUDDIGORE [Authorised American production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: 9 April 1887               Performance Count: 53


• Opening: 5 November 1887 @ the Standard Theatre, New York, transferring on 16 April 1888 to the Grand Opera House, New York, NY
• DOROTHY [Original "Broadway" production]
  (Musical, Comedy, Opera)
• Music by: Alfred Cellier;   Libretto by: B. C. Stephenson
• Closing: April 1888               Performance Count: 51