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Overview of the events of 1863 in music
Overview of the events of 1863 in music
January 6 – Johannes Brahms ' Piano Sonata no. 3 is premiered in Vienna, played by the 29-year-old composer. Richard Wagner is among the audience.[1]
January 29 – Established composer Giacomo Meyerbeer presents the young Jacques Offenbach to Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , the queen consort of Prussia.[1]
February 8 – Richard Wagner conducts a concert of his own music in Prague ; Antonín Dvořák is a member of the orchestra.[1]
February -April – Richard Wagner conducts a concert of his own music in Saint Petersburg . Tchaikovsky and César Cui attend. Works performed included excerpts from Tristan und Isolde , Das Rheingold , Die Walküre and the overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg .
February 25 – Johann Strauss II is appointed musical director of the Hofball.[1]
March 15 – In Vienna, Franz Schubert 's Der Entfernten D.331 for a male vocal quartet is performed in public for the first time, 35 years after the composer's death.[1]
April 19 – Hector Berlioz is presented with the Cross of the Order of Hohenzollern.[1]
May 10 – Violinist Joseph Joachim marries contralto Amalie Schneeweiss .
May 12 – Richard Wagner takes up residence at Penzing, near Vienna.[1]
June 20 – Franz Liszt takes up residence at the Dominican monastery of the Madonna del Rosario, Monte Mario, near Rome.[1]
July 11 – Pope Pius IX visits Franz Liszt at Monte Mario, and the two hold an impromptu concert.[1]
August 3 – 21-year-old Jules Massenet is awarded the First Grand Prix de Rome for his setting of the cantata David Rizzio .[1]
September 30 – Georges Bizet 's opera , Les pêcheurs de perles receives its première at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris .
November 2 – John Knowles Paine performs at the inauguration of a new organ at the Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts , USA.[1]
November 4 – Les Troyens , opera by Hector Berlioz , debuts, also at the Théâtre Lyrique
December 13 – Modest Mussorgsky becomes collegiate secretary at the chief engineering department of the Russian Ministry of Communications.[1] In the same year, he begins work on an opera, Salammbô , which is never finished.
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February 4 – Pauline de Ahna , operatic soprano (died 1950 )
February 5 – Armand Parent , composer (died 1934)
February 13 – Hugo Becker , composer (died 1941)
February 19 – Emánuel Moór , composer (died 1931 )
February – George J. Gaskin , tenor (died 1920 )
March 20 – Ernesto Nazareth , pianist and composer (died 1934 )
March 21 – Hugo Kaun , conductor, composer and music teacher (died 1932 )
April 3 – Wilhelm Middelschulte , composer (died 1943)
April 4 – Blanche Marchesi , operatic contralto (died 1940 )
April 9 – Ernst Heuser , German composer (died 1942 )
April 19 – Felix Blumenfeld , Russian composer, pianist (died 1931 )
May 10
May 12
June 2 – Felix von Weingartner , composer, conductor (died 1942 )
June 5
June 13 – Josef Venantius Wöss , composer (died 1943)
June 16 – Paul Antonin Vidal , composer (died 1931)
July 20 – W. H. Neidlinger , composer (died 1924)
July 28 – Carl Adolph Preyer , composer, pianist (died 1947)
August 11 – Árpád Szendy , composer (died 1922)
August 16 – Gabriel Pierné , composer (died 1937)
September 2 – Isidor Philipp , composer (died 1958)
September 15 – Horatio Parker , composer (died 1919 )
November 1 – Alfred Reisenauer , composer (died 1907 )
December 7 – Pietro Mascagni , composer (died 1945 )
December 17 – Ion Vidu , composer (died 1931)
December 24 – Enrique Fernández Arbós , violinist, conductor and composer (died 1939 )
February 4 – Giuseppe Lillo , composer, 38
February 25 – Laure Cinti-Damoreau , operatic soprano, 62
March 23 – Charles William Glover , composer (born 1806)
April 8 – Joseph Netherclift , composer, 70
May 14
June – Filippo Colini , operatic baritone, 51
June 7 – Franz Xaver Gruber , composer of "Silent Night", 75
June 12 – Pietro Alfieri , Roman Catholic music writer, 61
June 20 – Luigi Felice Rossi , composer, 57
June 22 – Carl Schuberth , composer (born 1811)
July 23 – Sophie Lebrun , pianist and composer, 82
August 5 – Adolf Friedrich Hesse , composer, 53
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