1863 in music

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Modest Mussorgsky begins work on an opera, Salammbô, which is never finished.
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)

Anton Bruckner - Study Symphony in F minor
Franz Liszt - Christus completed about now; Salve Polonia (S 518), 'Venezia e Napoli' - Tarantella, and St Francis of Paule walking on the waves written
Camille Saint-Saëns - Piano Trio No. 1 in F major opus 18, Spartacus overture for overture in E flat major

January 17 - Henry Charles Tonking, composer
February 5 - Armand Parent, composer
February 7 - Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer
February 19 - Emánuel Moór, composer
March 20 - Ernesto Nazareth, composer, pianist
March 23 - Hugo Kaun, composer (d. 1932)
April 19 (April 17 o.s.) - Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer, pianist (d. 1931)
May 12 - Charles Bordes, composer
June 2 - Felix von Weingartner, composer, conductor
June 5 - Arthur Somervell (d. 1937)
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