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Events in Music


Event of interestEvent of Interest

Mar 14 Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" at the Teatro della Pergola, Florence

Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Giuseppe Verdi
  • Nov 25 Opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna)

Birthdays in Music

  • Feb 2 Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer
  • Feb 7 Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor
  • Feb 15 Robert Fuchs, composer
  • Feb 16 Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album polonaise)
  • Mar 19 Constantin Dimitrescu, composer
  • Mar 31 Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
  • Apr 1 Gavriil Musicescu, composer
  • Apr 9 Paolo Tosti, Italian composer, born in Ortona, Italy (d. 1916)
  • Apr 9 Francis William Davenport, English composer, born in Wilderslowe, Derby (d. 1925)
  • Apr 10 Charles Swinnerton Heap, English composer, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1900)
  • May 13 Johannes Haarklou, composer
  • May 25 Alphonse Goovaerts, Belgian composer and musicologist (Histoire et Bibliographie de la Typographie Musicale dans les Pays-Bas), born in Antwerp, Belgian (d. 1922)
  • Jun 24 Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer
  • Jun 28 Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Icelandic composer (Lofsöngur - National Anthem of Iceland), born in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland (d. 1927)
  • Jul 5 Agnes Zimmermann, German composer, born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1925)
  • Jul 31 Ignatio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (Danzas Cubanas), born in Havana (d. 1905)
  • Aug 1 Guido Papini, Italian violinist and composer, born in Camaiore, Italy (d. 1912)
  • Aug 22 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scottish composer, born in Edinburgh (d. 1935)
  • Sep 13 Charles Dupee Blake, American composer, born in Walpole, Massachusetts (d. 1903)
  • Sep 16 Albert Ross Parsons, American composer, born in Sandusky, Ohio (d. 1933)
  • Oct 10 Gheorghe Dima, Romanian composer, born in Șcheii Brașovului, Romania (d. 1925)
  • Oct 21 Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini)
  • Nov 1 Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
  • Nov 30 August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer
  • Dec 1 Agathe Grondahl, composer
  • Dec 16 Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer

Deaths in Music

  • Jan 6 Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music, dies at 79
  • Jan 22 Georges-Julien Sieber, composer, dies at 71
  • Mar 28 Mariano Rodríguez de Ledesma, Spanish composer, dies at 67
  • Apr 23 Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64
  • May 14 Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, German composer, dies at 41
  • May 16 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
  • Jul 19 Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75
  • Oct 14 William Michael Rooke, composer, dies at 53

Person of interestFelix Mendelssohn

Nov 4 Felix Mendelssohn [Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy], German composer and pianist (Great Scherzos), dies at 38

Composer and Pianist Felix Mendelssohn
Composer and Pianist
Felix Mendelssohn
  • Dec 29 William Crotch, English composer, dies at 72