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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 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 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] Salammbô , which is never finished.
Published popular music [ edit ] 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
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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, 38February 25 – Laure Cinti-Damoreau , operatic soprano, 62March 23 – Charles William Glover , composer (born 1806)April 8 – Joseph Netherclift , composer, 70May 14
June – Filippo Colini , operatic baritone, 51
June 7 – Franz Xaver Gruber , composer of "Silent Night", 75June 12 – Pietro Alfieri , Roman Catholic music writer, 61June 20 – Luigi Felice Rossi , composer, 57June 22 – Carl Schuberth , composer (born 1811)July 23 – Sophie Lebrun , pianist and composer, 82August 5 – Adolf Friedrich Hesse , composer, 53
