Music year 1862

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Music year 1862
On the occasion of the opening of the Baden-Baden Theater , the opera Béatrice et Bénédict by Hector Berlioz will be premiered.
The song Battle Cry of Freedom is sung on both sides in the Civil War .	Johann Nepomuk Nestroy dies soon after the first performance of his last works.

Henri Fantin-Latour : La Muse (Richard Wagner) , lithograph 1862

Events

World premieres

Instrumental music

Giuseppe Verdi around 1860

May 24th : The secular cantata Inno delle nazioni ( Hymn of the Nations ) composed by Giuseppe Verdi for the London World Exhibition in 1862 , which calls for peace and fraternization of peoples, is premiered at the Royal Opera House in London under the direction of Luigi Arditi . The text of the composition is by Arrigo Boito .

Opera

February 15 : The opera Die Katakomben by Ferdinand Hiller is premiered in Wiesbaden.
June 26 : The world premiere of the comic opera Sarolta by Ferenc Erkel takes place in Budapest .
August 9 : On the occasion of the opening of the Baden-Baden Theater , the two-act opera Béatrice et Bénédict by Hector Berlioz is premiered. The libretto , loosely based on William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, comes from the composer himself.
November 10th : In Saint Petersburg, the opera La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi with the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino by the Spanish Duke Ángel de Saavedra is premiered and received by the audience with exuberant enthusiasm.
November 21 : The world premiere of the opera Blanche de Nevers by Michael William Balfe takes place in Covent Garden in London.

operetta

April 9 : The world premiere of the operetta Estrella de Soria by Franz Berwald takes place at the Royal Theater in Stockholm.

April 26 : The world premiere of the operetta Die Kartenschlägerin by Franz von Suppè , originally written for the Theater an der Wien and adapted for the Theater am Franz-Josefs-Kai in Vienna, is not a success.

October 25 : The operetta Ten Girls and No Man by Franz von Suppè has its world premiere at the Theater am Franz-Josefs-Kai in Vienna. The libretto comes from Friedrich Wilhelm Riese under the pseudonym Wilhelm Friedrich.

Singspiel

January 7th : Former circumstances , a farce with singing in one act by Johann Nestroy with music by Anton M. Storch is premiered at the Quai Theater in Vienna .

February 1st : The world premiere of the “Indian carnival burlesque” Chief Abendwind or The Greyish Feast by Johann Nestroy with music by Jacques Offenbach takes place at the Quai-Theater in Vienna. It is the last play written by Nestroy, on May 25th he died at the age of 60 in Graz. His last role is the parade role of Knieriem in The Evil Spirit Lumpazivagabundus .

February: The fairy tale song Hansel and Gretel by Georg Kremplsetzer is premiered in the Konzerthaus Odeon in Munich. In his libretto, Wilhelm Busch deviates significantly from the Brothers Grimm's original .

Dance theater

January 30th : The ballet La Fille du Pharaon by Cesare Pugni with the choreography by Marius Petipa has its world premiere at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg .

Popular pieces of music

before July: The Negro Spiritual Go down Moses is published for the first time.

George Frederick Root wrote the song Battle Cry of Freedom . The song, originally intended for use by the Union, became so popular that it was adapted for the Confederation and thus also sung in the southern states.

The Mexican Narciso Serradel Sevilla composes the song La Golondrina while a French prisoner of war .
The piece of music Taps was created in the United States .
Johann Strauss (son) : The composer brought out the following works in 1862, which were enthusiastically received by his audience and some are still played today: Carnevals Ambassador (Waltz) op 270; Wiener Chronik (Waltz) op 268; Concurrenzen (waltz) op 267; Motors (waltz) op 265; Patroness (waltz) op 264; Colonnen (waltz) op 262; The first cures (waltzes) op 261; Bluette (Polka) op 271; Lucifer Polka op 266; Demolirer Polka op 269; Student Polka op 263 and Un ballo in maschera (Quadrille) op 272.

Musicology

Ludwig von Köchel

Ludwig von Kochel released the Köchelverzeichnis in the first edition, a catalog of works of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
Anton Grigorjewitsch Rubinstein founds the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Saint Petersburg .

Other events

German Confederation / Habsburg Empire

Wagner's country house on the Rhine in Biebrich

February: After Richard Wagner wrote the poem for Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg on behalf of the Mainz publishing house Franz Schott in just 30 days , he settled in Biebrich to begin composing the music. The overture will be written a few weeks after the text has been completed between Palm Sunday and Easter (April 13th to 20th). This orchestral introduction, known as the “prelude”, is presented to the audience in the year of its composition and before the entire opera is finished, at a concert under Wagner's direction in Leipzig. The opera itself was not completed until 1868 .

April 21 : The Austrian folk singer Johann Fürst takes over the Schreyersche Affentheater in Wiener Wurstelprater .

May 1st : Delegates from 106 associations found the Franconian Singers ' Association in Bamberg “ for the purpose of jointly cultivating and promoting German male singing and thereby refining folk customs and preserving the German spirit ”. The founding members include Carl Gerster , who is elected Chairman, Hermann Beckh , Siegmund Freiherr von Haller , Jean Dietz and Valentin Eduard Becker . On September 21, Carl Gerster in Coburg was in charge of founding the German Choir Association , the world's largest association of amateur choirs.

Johannes Brahms is brought to the Vienna Singing Academy, founded in 1858 , as choirmaster .

Johannes Brahms starts working on his 1st symphony .

The Bohemian composer Bedřich Smetana begins work on the opera Die Brandenburger in Bohemia .

The choir of St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden is founded.

France

Noé , the last opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy , on which he had worked since 1858 , was still unfinishedwhen the composer died on March 17th . Halévy's student Georges Bizet takes over the work on the work.

Emma Livry 1862

November 15 : During a stage rehearsal for the ballet La muette de Portici at the Paris Opera , the costume of the ballerina Emma Livry catches fire in the limelight . She suffers such serious injuries that she dies six months later as a result.

The redesign of the Parisian boulevards by Georges-Eugène Haussmann led to the demolition of most of the theaters on the Boulevard du Temple , including the Théâtre des Funambules . The Théâtre-Lyrique will be relocated from its original location on the boulevard to the Place du Châtelet near the Seine.

Original building of the institution, Théâtre Historique on Boulevard du Temple (1862, shortly before demolition)
The Théâtre-Lyrique , building of the theater from 1862 (illustration from 1863)

Russia

In St. Petersburg, five Russian composers form the group of five . The aim of Mili Balakirew , Alexander Borodin , César Cui , Modest Mussorgski and Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow is to promote national Russian music in the footsteps of Mikhail Glinka and thus to distinguish it from western-oriented currents in Russian composition.

Mili Balakirev
Alexander Borodin
César Cui
Modest Mussorgsky
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky's teacher

The young Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky joins the Petersburg Conservatory founded by Anton Rubinstein , where Rubinstein teaches him personally in composition and instrumentation . Tchaikovsky receives theoretical lessons from the Polish composer Nikolai Zaremba .

Born

First half of the year

January 7 : Christine Friedlein , German singer (alto) († 1938 )
January 15 : Loïe Fuller , American burlesque actress and singer († 1928 )
January 18 : Anna Jäger , Austrian-German opera singer (soprano) († 1937 )
January 21 : Julius Levin , German physician, writer and violin maker of Jewish descent († 1935 )
January 29 : Frederick Delius , English composer († 1934 )
January 30 : Walter Damrosch , German-American conductor and composer († 1950 )

February 5 : Felipe Villanueva , Mexican composer († 1893 )
February 13 : Karel Weis , Bohemian / Czech composer and musician († 1944 )

March 10 : Fernand Le Borne , Belgian-French composer and music critic († 1929 )
March 29 : Carl Busch , American composer († 1943 )
March 30 : Georg Hartmann , German opera singer, director and artistic director († 1936 )

April 5 : Louis Ganne , French composer and conductor († 1923 )
April 8 : Eduard Behm , German pianist and composer († 1946 )
April 29 : Carl Friedemann , Swiss composer and conductor († 1952 )

May 2 : Maurice Emmanuel , French composer († 1938 )

June 21 : Friedrich Wilhelm Franke , German organist († 1932 )
June 21 : Henry Holden Huss , American composer († 1953 )
June 27 : Hanka Petzold , Norwegian-German singer, pianist and music teacher in Japan († 1937 )

Second half of the year

July 3 : Friedrich Ernst Koch , German composer and music teacher († 1927 )
July 9 : Carl Thiel , German organist, church musician and professor of music († 1939 )
July 14th : Albert Keates , British organ builder († 1949 )
July 18 : Max Gulbins , German organist, cantor and composer († 1932 )

August 22 : Claude Debussy , French composer († 1918 )

September 2 : Alphons Diepenbrock , Dutch composer, writer and classical philologist († 1921 )
September 8 : Karl Ludwig Werner , German organist and composer († 1902 )
September 25 : Léon Boëllmann , French organist and composer († 1897 )
September 30 : Georgi Eduardowitsch Konjus , Russian composer († 1933 )

October 5 : Adalbert Gülzow , German musician († 1933 )
October 8 : Emil von Sauer , German composer, pianist and music teacher († 1942 )
October 10 : Arthur De Greef , Belgian pianist and composer († 1940 )
October 12 : Ferdinand Pfohl , German music critic, writer and composer († 1949 )
October 15 : Conrad Ansorge , German pianist, composer and music teacher († 1930 )
October 23 : Léon Durocher , French chansonnier, writer, journalist and Breton bard († 1918 )
October 27 : Karl Walter , German organist, pedagogue, scientist, organ and bell expert († 1929 )

November 1st : Johan Wagenaar , Dutch composer and organist († 1941 )
November 14 : Adolphe Hennebains , French flautist and university professor († 1914 )
November 16 : Jacques Rouché , French editor and opera director († 1957 )
November 23 : Alberto Williams , Argentine composer and conductor († 1952 )
November 24th : Bernhard Stavenhagen , German composer and pianist († 1914 )
November 29 : Friedrich Klose , German composer († 1942 )

December 17 : Moriz Rosenthal , Polish-American pianist († 1946 )
December 27th : Luise Greger , German composer († 1944 )
December 28 : Paul Kunisch , German music director and composer († 1938 )

Exact date of birth unknown

Frederick Maxson , American composer and organist († 1934 )

Died

January 5th : Franz Joseph Fröhlich , German teacher and musicologist (* 1780 )
February 7 : František Škroup , Bohemian composer and conductor (* 1801 )
February 13 : Leopold Schefer , German poet and composer (* 1784 )

Bust of Halévy in the Paris Opera

March 17th : Jacques Fromental Halévy , French composer and music teacher (* 1799 )

May 3 : Amancio Alcorta , Argentine composer and politician (* 1805 )
May 29 : Franciszek Mirecki , Polish composer (* 1791 )

July 14 : José Escolástico Andrino , Salvadoran composer (* 1817 )
August 31 : Ignaz Aßmayer , Austrian composer and church musician (* 1790 )
September 11th : Michael Greiner , German-Austrian singer and actor (* 1798 )
September 15 : Hermann Dreymann , German organ builder (* 1824 )

October 9 : Joseph Fischer , Austrian singer, impresario and composer (* 1780 )
October 20 : François Sudre , French music teacher and inventor of the musical planned language Solresol (* 1787 )

November 17 : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Werstowski , Russian composer (* 1799 )
December 25th : Adolph Kullak , German pianist and music writer (* 1823 )
December 28th : Ignaz Tomaselli , Austrian singer and actor (* 1812 )

Johann Nepomuk Tröndlin , German piano maker (* 1790 )

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