1862 in music
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Events
- March 17 – Anton Rubinstein is named first director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, which opens in September. Tchaikovsky is in the first incoming class.
- March 24 – Fromental Halévy's funeral, in Paris, is attended by an estimated 15,000 people.[1]
- April 24 – A letter from Giuseppe Verdi is published in The Times of London complaining about the rejection of a work commissioned from him for the Great Exhibition.[1]
- May 17 – Teatro Comunale Florence inaugurated as an open-air amphitheatre, the Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele, with a production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
- May 21 – Edvard Grieg gives his first concert in his home town of Bergen, Norway.[1]
- August 4 – Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray wins the Prix de Rome in the Musical Composition category. Jules Massenet is one of the runners-up.[1]
- August 9 – The première of Hector Berlioz's opera Béatrice et Bénédict inaugurates the new Theater Baden-Baden.
- November 2 – The overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner is publicly performed in Leipzig, conducted by the composer.
- November 10 (November 22 N.S.) – Giuseppe Verdi's opera La forza del destino is first performed, in the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- November 18 – Antonín Dvořák is a member of the orchestra at the opening of the Provisional Theater in Prague.[1]
- date unknown
- Johannes Brahms and Johann Strauss II meet, at Baden-Baden.
- Stephen Heller and Charles Hallé perform Mozart's E-flat concerto for two pianos at The Crystal Palace in London.
- Ludwig von Köchel publishes Chonologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts (Catalogue of Mozart's Works or "The Köchel Catalog").
Published popular music
- "Battle Cry of Freedom" – George Frederick Root
- "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" – Julia Ward Howe, published in Atlantic Monthly (February 1).
- "Here's Your Mule" – C. D. Benson
- "Kingdom Coming" – Henry C. Work
- "The Merry, Merry Month of May" – Stephen Foster
- "We Are Coming, Father Abra'am, 300,000 More", a poem by James S. Gibbons, set to music by eight different composers, including Stephen Foster.[2]
- Tyneside Songs – Thomas Allan (publisher)
Classical music
- Johannes Brahms - First two movements of the Cello Sonata No. 1
- Felix Draeseke – Fantasiestücke in Walzerform, opus 3: Nr. 1 in B; Nr. 2 in A-flat
- Asger Hamerik – Quintet
- Joachim Raff – Piano Quintet, Op. 107 in A minor
- Alexander Borodin – Piano Quintet in C minor
- Camille Saint-Saëns – Mazurka No. 1 for piano in G minor, Opus 21
Opera
- Julius Benedict – The Lily of Killarney
- Hector Berlioz – Béatrice et Bénédict
- Frederic Clay – Court and Cottage (libretto by Tom Taylor)
- Charles Gounod – La reine de Saba
- Franz von Suppé – Die Kartenschlägerin
- Giuseppe Verdi – La forza del destino
Births
- January 29 – Frederick Delius, composer (d. 1934)
- January 30 – Walter Damrosch, conductor (d. 1950)
- February 13 – Karel Weis, composer (d. 1944)
- February 17 – Edward German, composer (d. 1936)
- March 21 – Elmer Samuel Hosmer, composer (d. 1945)
- May 2 – Maurice Emmanuel, composer (d. 1938)
- June 27 – May Irwin, actress and singer (d. 1938)
- August 11 – Carrie Jacobs-Bond, US songwriter (d. 1946)
- August 22 – Claude Debussy, composer (d. 1918)
- September 25 – Léon Boëllmann, composer and organist (d. 1897)
- October 10 – Arthur De Greef, composer and pianist (d. 1940)
- November 1 – Johan Wagenaar, organist and composer (d. 1941)
- December 18 – Moriz Rosenthal, pianist (d. 1946)
- date unknown – Marcelle Lender, French singer-dancer and entertainer (d. 1926)
Deaths
- February 5 – Ignaz Franz Castelli, dramatist and songwriter (b. 1780)
- February 7 – František Škroup, composer (b. 1801)
- February 16 – Leopold Schefer, composer and poet (b. 1784)
- March 17 – Fromental Halévy, composer (b. 1799)
- May 21 – Edwin Pearce Christy, founder of Christy's Minstrels (b. 1815) (suicide)
- May 23 – Friedrich Ruthardt, oboist and composer (b. 1800)
- May 25 – Johann Nestroy, singer and actor (b. 1801)
- July 2 – Charles Mayer, pianist and composer (b. 1799)
- August 31 – Ignaz Assmayer, composer (b. 1790)
- November 1 – Eleonora Zrza, Danish opera soprano (b. 1797)
- December 24 – Joseph Funk, composer and music teacher (b. 1778)
- date unknown
- Joseph Fonclause, bow-maker (b. 1799)
- Jon Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (b. 1790)
- Luigi Piccioli, singer and music teacher (b. 1812)
- Geltrude Righetti, operatic contralto (b. 1793)
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References
- MusicAndHistory.com: 1862 Archived 2012-08-28 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 8 March 2013
- Silber, Irwin, Songs of the Civil War, p 92, Published by Courier Dover Publications, 1995 ISBN 978-0-486-28438-5. page , retrieved December 6, 2008
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