1862 in music

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• 2.1 First half of
• 2.2 Second half of
• 2.3 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Premieres

• January 7: Past relationships, a farce with songs in one act by Johann Nestroy with the music of Anton M. Storch will be premiered at the Vienna Quai Theatre.
• January 30: The ballet La Fille du Pharaon by Cesare Pugni, with choreography by Marius Petipa, has its world premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
• February 1: The premiere of " Indian Faschingsburleske " Chief evening breeze or the abominable feast of Johann Nestroy with music by Jacques Offenbach takes place in Vienna at the Quai Theatre. It is the last piece written by Nestroy, on May 25, he died at the age of 60 years in Graz. His last role is the prime role of Knieriem in the evil spirit Lumpazivagabundus.
• February 15: The Opera The Catacombs of Ferdinand Hiller will be premiered in Wiesbaden.
• February: The fairy tale Hansel and Gretel Singspiel by Georg Kremplsetzer will be premiered at the Konzerthaus Odeon in Munich. Wilhelm Busch soaked in his libretto heavily on the presentation of the Brothers Grimm.
• April 9: The premiere of the operetta Estrella de Soria by Franz Berwald takes place at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm.
• April 26: The world premiere of the original for the Theater an der Wien and written for the theater at the Franz - Josef - Kai adapted in Vienna operetta by Franz von Suppe The teller is not a success.

• MAY 24: The occasion of the World Exhibition London 1862, composed by Giuseppe Verdi secular cantata Inno delle nazioni ( Hymn of the Nations ) that calls for peace and fraternity between nations, will be premiered at the Royal Opera House in London under the direction of Luigi Arditi. The text of the composition comes from Arrigo Boito.
• June 26: In Budapest, the first performance of the comic opera by Ferenc Erkel Sarolta takes place.
• August 9: On the occasion of the opening of the theater Baden -Baden two-act opera Béatrice et Bénédict by Hector Berlioz premiered. The libretto, loosely based on William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing written by the composer himself
• October 25: The operetta Ten girls and not a man of Franz von Suppe has its world premiere at the theater at the Franz - Josef - Kai in Vienna. The libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese under the pseudonym Wilhelm Friedrich.
• November 10: In St. Petersburg, the opera La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after the submission of Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino of the Spanish Duke Ángel de Saavedra will be premiered and received by the audience with exuberant enthusiasm.
• November 21: The premiere of the opera Blanche de Nevers by Michael William Balfe takes place in Covent Garden in London.

Popular music

• Before July: The Negro Spiritual Go down Moses is first published.

• George Frederick Root wrote the song Battle Cry of Freedom. Originally intended for use by the Union song is so popular that it is adapted for the Confederacy and thus also sung in the southern states.
• The Mexican Narciso Serradel Seville composed in French captivity the song La Golondrina.
• In the United States the song Taps arises.

Musicology

• Ludwig von Kochel published the Köchelverzeichnis the first edition of a catalog raisonné of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein founded in Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

Other Events

German Federal / Habsburg Empire

• February: After Richard Wagner wrote the poetry to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg on behalf of the publishing house Franz Schott Mainz in just 30 days, he settled in Biebrich to start composing the music. The overture is created in a few weeks after completion of the text between Palm Sunday and Easter ( April 13 to 20 ). This as a " prelude " designated orchestral introduction is already in the year of their occurrence, and before the whole opera is finished, presented at a concert under his direction in Leipzig the audience. The opera itself is not finished until 1868.
• April 21: Austrian folk singer Johann prince takes over the Schreyersche charade in the Vienna Prater.

• Johannes Brahms brought as choirmaster at the Vienna Academy of Music, founded in 1858.
• Johannes Brahms began work on his first symphony.
• The Bohemian composer Bedrich Smetana begins with the work on the opera The Brandenburger in Bohemia.
• The choir of St. Boniface in Wiesbaden is founded.

France

• Noé, the last opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy, where he has worked since 1858, the composer's death on March 17, is still unfinished. Halévy students Georges Bizet takes over the work on the piece.

• The transformation of the boulevards of Paris by Georges- Eugène Haussmann leads to the demolition of most theaters on the Boulevard du Temple, including, inter alia, the Théâtre des Funambules. The Théâtre Lyrique is moved from its original location on the boulevard near the Place du Chatelet, near the Seine.

The Théâtre Lyrique, theater building from 1862 ( figure from 1863 )

Russia

• In St. Petersburg, close five Russian composers of the group of five. The aim of Mily Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky -Korsakov is promoting a national Russian music in the successor Mikhail Glinka and thus to distinguish them from Western-oriented currents in Russian composition.

Alexander Borodin

César Cui

Modest Mussorgsky

Nikolai Rimsky -Korsakov

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky enters, founded by Anton Rubinstein Petersburg Conservatory where personally informed him Rubinstein in composition and orchestration. The theoretical instruction receives Tchaikovsky at the Polish composer Nikolai Zaremba.

Born

First half year

• January 7: Christine Friedlein, German singer ( alto) († 1938)
• JANUARY 21: Julius Levin, German physician, writer and luthier Jewish descent († 1935)
• JANUARY 22: Loie Fuller, American burlesque actress and singer († 1928)
• January 29: Frederick Delius, English composer († 1934)
• JANUARY 30: Walter Damrosch, German - American conductor and composer († 1950)

• February 5: Felipe Villanueva, Mexican composer († 1893)
• February 13: Karel Weis, Bohemian / Czech composer and musician († 1944)

• April 5: Louis Ganne, French composer and conductor († 1923)
• April 8: Edward Behm, German pianist and composer († 1946)
• APRIL 29: Carl Friedemann, Swiss composer and conductor († 1952)

• May 2: Maurice Emmanuel, French composer († 1938)
• MAY 22: Enric Morera, Catalan composer († 1942)

• 21 June: Friedrich Wilhelm Franke, German organist († 1932)
• 21 June: Henry Holden Huss, American composer († 1953)

Second half- year

• July 3: Friedrich Ernst Koch, German composer and music educator († 1927)
• July 9: Carl Thiel, German organist, church musician and professor of music († 1939)
• JULY 18: Max Gulbins, German organist, choirmaster and composer († 1932)

• August 22: Claude Debussy, French composer († 1918)

• September 2: Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer, writer and philologist († 1921)
• September 8: Karl Ludwig Werner, German organist and composer († 1902)
• SEPTEMBER 25: Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer († 1897)
• September 30: Georgi Eduardovich Conus, Russian composer († 1933)

• OCTOBER 5: Adalbert Gülzow, German musician († 1933)
• October 8: Emil von Sauer, German composer, pianist and music teacher († 1942)
• October 10: Arthur De Greef, Belgian pianist and composer († 1940)
• OCTOBER 12: Ferdinand Pfohl, German music critic, writer, and composer († 1949)
• OCTOBER 15: Conrad Ansorge, German pianist, composer and music teacher († 1930)
• October 23: Leon Durocher, French singer, writer, journalist and Breton bard († 1918)
• OCTOBER 27: Karl Walter, German organist, teacher, scientist, organ and bells expert († 1929)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Albert Keates, British organ builder († 1950)
• Frederick Maxson, American composer and organist († 1934)

Died

• JANUARY 5: Franz Joseph Fröhlich, German pedagogue and musicologist (* 1780)

• February 7: František Škroup, Bohemian composer and conductor (* 1801)
• February 13: Leopold Schefer, German poet and composer (* 1784)

• MAY 3: Amancio Alcorta, Argentine composer and politician (* 1805)
• May 29: Franciszek Mirecki, Polish composer (* 1791)

• October 9: Joseph Fischer, Austrian singer, composer and impresario (* 1780)
• October 20: François Sudre, French music teacher and inventor of the musical plan language Solresol (* 1787)

• December 25: Adolph Kullak, German pianist and writer on music (* 1823)
• December 28: Ignaz Tomaselli, Austrian singer and actor (* 1812)

• Hermann Dreymann, German organ builder (* 1824)