1863 in music

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On the night of 8 to 9 June, the falls since 1860 existing theater at the Franz - Josef - Kai in Vienna in a fire. Director Karl Treumann thereupon to the plan of its own theater building and takes over on August 19, again the Directorate of Carl theater.
Emperor Franz Joseph I. leaves the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna in the area of Vienna's Ringstrasse, free of charge, an area for the construction of a concert hall. With the design of the architect Theophil Hansen is appointed.

The Bohemian composer Bedrich Smetana completed the opera began last year, the Brandenburger in Bohemia. The premiere takes place, however, until the year 1866.
Anton Bruckner composed the Symphony study. He endeavors in the coming years in vain for a performance.
Gioacchino Rossini composed the Petite Messe solennelle.

November 21: The 20 -year-old Carl Michael Ziehrer are with his band his debut as a composer and conductor in Dianabadsaal in Vienna's Leopoldstadt.

Until then because of his sympathy for the revolution of 1848/1849 disgraced Johann Strauss ( son ) is of Emperor Franz Joseph I to kk Court Ball Music Director appointed.
Summer: Franz Liszt stretches from Rome to the monastery Madonna del Rosario on Monte Mario back, where he among other things, Pope Pius IX. visited.

The song When Johnny Comes Marching Home is published. It is based on the Irish anti-war ballad Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye.
Franz Mair, former choirmaster of the Vienna Men's Choral Society, founded after a falling out with the club in the tavern " new world " in Vienna the teacher choir Schubertbund.
The Cologne Cathedral Choir will be re-established.

JANUARY 5: Meliton Balantschiwadse, Georgian composer and collector of folk songs († 1937)
JANUARY 12: Wilibald Nagel, German musicologist and music critic († 1929)

June 2: Felix Weingartner, Austrian conductor, composer and pianist († 1942)
June 8: Ernst Kraus, German heroic tenor († 1941)
JUNE 13: Josef Venantius von Woss, Austrian church musician and publisher editor († 1943)
JUNE 16: Paul Vidal, French composer († 1931)
June 26: Robert Eugene White, German opera singer and Academy Professor († 1933)

September 2: Isidore Philipp, Hungarian - French pianist and music teacher († 1958)
September 8: Gustavo E. Campa, Mexican composer († 1934)
September 15: Horatio Parker, American composer († 1919)
September 29: Lennart Arvid Lundberg, Swedish pianist, composer and music teacher († 1931)
September 30: Pierina Legnani, Italian ballet dancer, first Prima Ballerina Assoluta of ballet history († 1923)

October 9: Alexander Siloti, Russian pianist, composer and conductor († 1945)
October 9: Adam Müller, German folk poet, singer and humorist Hessian dialect († 1932)
OCTOBER 11: Xavier Leroux, French composer († 1919)
OCTOBER 19: Milka Trnina, Croatian opera singer (soprano ) ( † 1941)

January 31: Matthias Theodor Friedrich Friese, German organist and organ builder (* 1792)
FEBRUARY 24: Karl Albrecht Franzevich, Russian composer (* 1807)

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