1862 In Music

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.
* 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.MusicAndHistory.com: 1862
. Accessed 8 March 2013
* 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.
* August 4 – Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray wins the Prix de Rome in the Musical Composition category. Jules Massenet is one of the runners-up.
* August 9 – The première of Hector Berlioz's opera ''Béatrice et Bénédict'' inaugurates the new Theater Baden-Baden.
* November 2 – The Ride of the Valkyries and the overture to ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'' by Richard Wagner are 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.
*''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.Silber, Irwin
''Songs of the Civil War''
p 92, Published by Courier Dover Publications, 1995 . page , retrieved December 6, 2008
* '' Tyneside Songs'' – Thomas Allan (publisher)

Classical music

*Alexander Borodin – Piano Quintet in C minor
*Johannes Brahms - First two movements of the Cello Sonata No. 1
*Emanuel Chabrier – Souvenirs de Brunehaut
* Felix Draeseke – ''Fantasiestücke in Walzerform, opus 3: Nr. 1 in B; Nr. 2 in A-flat''
* Louis Moreau Gottschalk
**Union, Op. 48
**Home Sweet Home, Op.51
**Le Papillon
*Asger Hamerik – Quintet
* Ferdinand Laub – Concert-Polonaise, Op. 8
* Karol Józef Lipiński – 2 Impromptus, Op.34 (''published'' ''posthumously'')
*Franz Liszt – Phantasiestück über Motive aus 'Rienzi', S. 439
* Henry Charles Litolff – Scherzo, Op. 115
*Giacomo Meyerbeer – Fest-Ouvertüre im Marschstyl
* Cesare Pugni – ''The Pharaoh's Daughter'', ballet
*Joachim Raff – Piano Quintet, Op. 107 in A minor
* Napoleon Henri Reber – Piano Trio No. 4 'Sérénade', Op. 25
*Camille Saint-Saëns – Mazurka No. 1 for piano in G minor, Op. 21
* Henri Vieuxtemps – Violin Concerto No. 5, Op. 37
*Giuseppe Verdi - Hymn of the Nations
*Henri Wieniawski
**Etudes-Caprices, Op. 18
**Fantaisie orientale, Op. 24

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 19 – Jef Denyn, carillon player (d. 1941)
*March 21 – Elmer Samuel Hosmer, composer (d. 1945)
*April 5 – Louis Ganne, conductor (died 1923)
* May 2 – Maurice Emmanuel, composer (d. 1938)
* June 3 – Joseph Humfrey Anger, composer (died 1913)
* June 27 – May Irwin, actress and singer (d. 1938)
* August 10 – Ernest Richard Kroeger, composer (died 1934)
*August 11 – Carrie Jacobs-Bond, US songwriter (d. 1946)
* August 22 – Claude Debussy, composer (d. 1918)
* August 29 – Maurice Maeterlinck, lyricist (died 1949)
* September 25 – Léon Boëllmann, composer and organist (d. 1897)
* October 10 – Arthur De Greef, composer and pianist (d. 1940)
*October 15 – Conrad Ansorge, composer (died 1930)
* November 1 – Johan Wagenaar, organist and composer (d. 1941)
* December 9 – Karel Kovařovic, composer (died 1920)
* December 18 – Moriz Rosenthal, pianist (d. 1946)
* December 23 – Hans Wessely, composer (died 1926)
*''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)
* April 7 – Sydney Nelson, composer and arranger (born 1800)
* 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 2 – Marius Gueit, French organist, cellist and composer (b. 1808)
* 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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