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1 Events

• The first Viennese operetta, Das Pensionat by Franz von Suppé, debuts at the Theater an der Wien
• First official modern Welsh Eisteddfod is held at Denbigh

2 Published popular music

• "Down Among the Cane-Brakes" By Stephen Foster
• "Mary Of Argyle"     w. Charles H. Jefferys m. Sidney Nelson
• " Old Black Joe " By Stephen Foster
• "Virginia Belle" By Stephen Foster

3 Musical theater

• Orphée Aux Enfers, Vienna production

4 Births

• January 17 - Eugene Cowles
• March 1March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). There are 305 days remaining. Events BC 29 BC Horace writes the ode Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen''. AD First thousand years 286 Maximian proclaimed junior Roman emperor. - Joe Natus
• March 13March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). There are 293 days remaining. Events 483 St. Felix becomes Pope. 874 The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Apostles, Constantinople. 1138 Cardin - Hugo WolfHugo Wolf ( March 13, 1860 February 22, 1903) was a Slovene composer and writer on music, particularly noted for his songs. He brought to the form of the lieder a concentrated expressive intensity which was almost unique in late Romanticism, somewhat rela, composerA composer is a person who writes music. The term refers particularly to someone who writes music in some type of musical notation, thus allowing others to perform the music. This distinguishes the composer from a musician who improvises. However, a perso
• May 29May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). There are 216 days remaining. Events 1167 Battle of Legano, in which The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I. 1414 Council of Constance. 1453 Ottoman armies under - Isaac AlbenizIsaac Manuel Francisco Albeniz ( May 29, 1860 May 19, 1909) was a Spanish pianist and composer, best known for his piano works that are based on Spanish folk music. Born in Camprodon, Catalonia, Albeniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age o
• July 7July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. Events 1456 Joan of Arc is acquitted of heresy (but she had already been executed). 1534 European colonization of the Americas: First known excha - Gustav Mahler, composer, conductor
• November 18 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist
• December 18 - Edward MacDowell
• December 20 - Dan Leno, English music hall comedian, dancer and singer
• December 28 - Harry B. Smith, US songwriter