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Overview of the events of 1862 in music
Overview of the events of 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.[ 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]
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Published popular music
Sheet music cover
Classical music
Opera
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)
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References