1863 in music

See also: 1862 in music, other events of 1863, 1864 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

• 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)

Popular music

• "All Quiet On The Potomac Tonight"     w.m. John Hill Hewitt
• "Just Before the Battle, Mother" by George F. Root
• "My Darling Clementine" by Percy Montrose & H S. Thompson
• "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!"     w.m. John Hill Hewitt
• "The Young Volunteer"     w.m. John Hill Hewitt

Classical music

Opera

• Hector Berlioz – Les Troyens
• Charles Gounod – Mireille

Births

• January 17 – Henry Charles Tonking, composer
• February 5 – Armand Parent, composer
• February 7 – Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer
• February 19 – Emanuel Moor, composer
• March 20 – Ernesto Nazareth, composer, pianist
• May 12 – Charles Bordes, composer
• June 2 – Felix von Weingartner, composer, conductor
• 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 Xavier Gruber, composer
• July 22 – Carl Schuberth, composer
• August 5 – Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer
• November 21 – Joseph Mayseder, violinist and composer