1863 in music
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See also: 1862 in music, other events of 1863, 1864 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
Events
- Modest Mussorgsky begins work on an opera, Salammbô, which is never finished.
- Georges Bizet's opera, Les Pêcheurs de perles debuts at the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris (September 30)
- Les Troyens, opera by Hector Berlioz, debuts, also at the Théâtre-Lyrique (November 4)
Published popular music
- "All Quiet On The Potomac Tonight" w.m. John Hill Hewitt
- "Just Before the Battle, Mother" by George F. Root
- "Mother Would Comfort Me" w.m. Charles C. Sawyer
- "My Darling Clementine" by Percy Montrose & H S. Thompson
- "Sweet and Low" words by Alfred Tennyson, music by Joseph Barnby
- "Weeping Sad And Lonely" w. Charles Carroll Sawyer m. Henry Tucker
- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" by Louis Lambert & Patrick Gilmore
- "You Are Going To The Wars, Willie Boy!" w.m. John Hill Hewitt
- "The Young Volunteer" w.m. John Hill Hewitt
Classical music
Opera
- Hector Berlioz - Les Troyens
- Georges Bizet - Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)
- Charles Gounod - Mireille
- Giovanni Pacini - Carmelita (not performed)
Births
- January 17 - Henry Charles Tonking, composer
- February 5 - Armand Parent, composer
- February 7 - Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer
- February 19 - Emanuel Moor, composer
- March 20 - Ernesto Nazareth, composer, pianist
- May 12 - Charles Bordes, composer
- June 2 - Felix von Weingartner, composer, conductor
- June 13 - Josef Venantius von Woss, composer
- June 16 - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer
- August 11 - Arpad Szendy, composer
- September 8 - Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer
- September 15 - Horatio William Parker, composer
- October 11 - Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer
- October 24 - Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer
- November 1 - Alfred Reisenauer, composer
- November 3 - Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer
- November 30 - Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer
- December 2 - Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer
- December 7 - Pietro Mascagni, composer
- December 17 - Ion Vidu, composer
Deaths
- January 9 - Ferdinand Huber, composer
- April 8 - Joseph Netherclift, composer
- April 15 - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer
- May 14 - Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer
- June 7 - Franz Gruber, composer of "Silent Night"
- July 22 - Carl Schuberth, composer
- August 5 - Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer
- November 21 - Joseph Mayseder, violinist and composer
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