1863 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
* "Eton Boating Song" w. William Johnson Cory m. Capt. Algernon Drummond
* "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
* "Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" w. Harry Clifton m. traditional
* "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!|You Are Going To The Wars, Willie Boy!" w.m. John Hill Hewitt
* "The Young Volunteer" w.m. John Hill Hewitt

Classical music

*Anton Bruckner - "Study Symphony" in F minor
*Franz Liszt - "Christus" completed about now; "Salve Polonia" (S 518), 'Venezia e Napoli' - Tarantella, and "St Francis of Paule walking on the waves" written
*Camille Saint-Saëns - Piano Trio No. 1 in F major opus 18, Spartacus overture for overture in E-flat major

Opera

*Hector Berlioz - "Les Troyens"
*Georges Bizet - "Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)"
*Charles Gounod - "Mireille"
*Giovanni Pacini - "Carmelita" (not performed)

Musical theater

* "Ixion" London production opened at the Royalty Theatre on September 28 and ran for 153 performances

Births

*January 17 - Henry Charles Tonking, composer
*February 5 - Armand Parent, composer
*February 7 - Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer
*February 19 - Emánuel Moór, composer
*March 20 - Ernesto Nazareth, composer, pianist
*March 23 - Hugo Kaun, composer (d. 1932)
* April 19 (April 17 o.s.) - Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer, pianist (d. 1931)
*May 12 - Charles Bordes, composer
* June 2 - Felix von Weingartner, composer, conductor
* June 5 - Arthur Somervell (d. 1937)
*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