1836 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1836.

Events

*June 7 – Huddersfield Choral Society formed in the north of England.
*July – Soprano Maria Malibran is seriously injured in a riding accident, but refuses to see a doctor; she dies later in the year at the age of 28.
*September 9 – Frédéric Chopin proposes marriage to Maria Wodzinski in Marienbad.
*November 24 – Richard Wagner marries Minna Planer.
*Saverio Mercadante is invited to Paris by Gioacchino Rossini.

Classical music

*William Sterndale Bennett – Overture to ''The Naiads''
*Henri Bertini – 2 Nocturnes, Op.102
*Ernesto Cavallini – 3 Duos for 2 Clarinets
*Gaetano Donizetti
**String Quartet No.18, A 482
**Viva il matrimonio (Se tu giri tutto il mondo)
*Louise Farrenc – Air russe varie, Op. 17
*Auguste Franchomme – Chant d’Adieux
*Franz Paul Lachner – Symphony No.5, Op.52
*Fanny Mendelssohn – ''Frühzeitiger Frühling''
*Felix Mendelssohn – ''St. Paul''
*Robert Schumann – Fantasie in C
*Henri Vieuxtemps – Violin Concerto No. 2 in F♯ minor
*Issac Nathan – "Queen of Evening"

Opera

*Adolphe Adam – ''Le Postillon de Longjumeau''
*Louise Bertin – ''La Esmeralda'' (with libretto by Victor Hugo), premiered November 14 in Paris
*Gaetano Donizetti
**''L'assedio di Calais,'' premiered November 18 in Naples
**''Belisario''
**''Il campanello'', premiered June 1 in Naples
*Mikhail Glinka – ''A Life for the Tsar''
*Saverio Mercadante – '' I Briganti'', premiered March 22 in Paris
*Giacomo Meyerbeer – ''Les Huguenots''
*Richard Wagner – ''Das Liebesverbot''

Popular music

*" Fair Harvard" (lyrics by Samuel Gilman)
*"Morning Star" (music by Francis F. Hagen)

Publications

*John Addison – ''Singing Practically Treated in a Series of Instructions''
*Dionisio Aguado – La Guitare, méthode simple
* Adolphe Miné – ''Méthode d'orgue''

Births

*February 16 – Benjamin Edward Woolf, violinist (died 1901)
*February 21 – Léo Delibes, composer (d. 1891)
*February 22 – Mitrofan Belyayev, music publisher (d. 1904)
*March 21 – Bertha Tammelin, Swedish musician, composer and singer (died 1915)
*March 24 – Eufrosyne Abrahamson, Swedish soprano (d. 1869)
*April 8 – Henry Brougham Farnie, librettist (died 1889)
*June 12 – Bernardine Hamaekers, Belgian opera singer (died 1912)
*June 29 – Thomas Philander Ryder, composer, organist, teacher, conductor, and organ builder (d. 1887)
*October 27 – Luigi Hugues, geographer, flautist and composer (d. 1913)
*October 28 – Eliakum Zunser, Yiddish songwriter (d. 1925)
*November 18 – W. S. Gilbert, dramatist, poet and librettist (d. 1911)
*November 23 – Wilhelm Barge, flautist (died 1925)
*December 2 – Giuseppe Donati, inventor of the ocarina (d. 1925)
*''date unknown''
**Tamburi Ali Efendi, Turkish tanbur virtuoso and composer (d. 1902)
** Marie Proksch, pianist (died 1900)

Deaths

*January 3 – Friedrich Witt, cellist and composer (b. 1770)
*February 8 – Franziska Stading, opera singer (b. 1763)
*February 22 – John Clarke Whitfield, organist and composer (b. 1770)
*May 7 – Norbert Burgmüller, composer (b. 1810) (drowned)
*May 28 – Anton Reicha, composer (b. 1770)
*June 9 – Supply Belcher, composer, singer, and compiler of tune books (b. 1751)
*June 26 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of "La Marseillaise" (b. 1760)
*September 19 – Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer (born 1770)
*September 21 – John Stafford Smith, British composer, organist and musicologist (b. 1750)
*September 23
**Maria Malibran, operatic soprano (b. 1808)
**Andreas Razumovsky, patron of Ludwig van Beethoven (b. 1752)
*December 5 – Giuseppe Ciccimarra, operatic tenor (b. 1790)
*December 12 – Giuseppe Farinelli, composer (born 1769)
*December 26 – Hans Georg Nägeli, composer and music publisher (b. 1773)
*December 29 – Johann Baptist Schenk, Austrian composer and teacher (b. 1753)

References

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