1836 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1836.
Events
- June 7 â Huddersfield Choral Society formed in the north of England.[1]
- July â 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 â Frédéric Chopin proposes marriage to Maria Wodzinski in Marienbad.
- November 24 â Richard Wagner marries Minna Planer.
- Saverio Mercadante is invited to Paris by Gioacchino Rossini.
Classical music
- William Sterndale Bennett â Overture to The Naiads
- Henri Bertini â 2 Nocturnes, Op.102
- Ernesto Cavallini â 3 Duos for 2 Clarinets
- Gaetano Donizetti
- String Quartet No.18, A 482
- Viva il matrimonio (Se tu giri tutto il mondo)
- Louise Farrenc â Air russe varie, Op. 17
- Auguste Franchomme â Chant dâAdieux
- Franz Paul Lachner â Symphony No.5, Op.52
- Fanny Hensel â Frühzeitiger Frühling
- Felix Mendelssohn â St. Paul
- Robert Schumann â Fantasie in C
- Henri Vieuxtemps â Violin Concerto No. 2 in F⯠minor
- Issac Nathan â "Queen of Evening"[2][failed verification]
Opera
- Adolphe Adam â Le Postillon de Longjumeau
- Louise Bertin â 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 â A Life for the Tsar
- Saverio Mercadante â I Briganti, premiered March 22 in Paris
- Giacomo Meyerbeer â Les Huguenots
- Richard Wagner â Das Liebesverbot
Popular music
- "Fair Harvard" (lyrics by Samuel Gilman)[3]
- "Morning Star" (music by Francis F. Hagen)[4]
Publications
- John Addison â Singing Practically Treated in a Series of Instructions[5]
- Dionisio Aguado â La Guitare, méthode simple
- Adolphe Miné â Méthode d'orgue
Births
- February 16 â Benjamin Edward Woolf, violinist (died 1901)
- February 21 â Léo Delibes, composer (d. 1891)[6]
- February 22 â Mitrofan Belyayev, music publisher (d. 1904)
- March 21 â Bertha Tammelin, Swedish musician, composer and singer (died 1915)
- March 24 â Eufrosyne Abrahamson, Swedish soprano (d. 1869)
- April 8 â Henry Brougham Farnie, librettist (died 1889)
- June 12 â Bernardine Hamaekers, Belgian opera singer (died 1912)
- June 29 â Thomas Philander Ryder, composer, organist, teacher, conductor, and organ builder (d. 1887)
- October 20 â Frederick Herbert Torrington, conductor, organist, and founder of the Toronto College of Music (d. 1917)[7]
- October 27 â Luigi Hugues, geographer, flautist and composer (d. 1913)
- October 28 â Eliakum Zunser, Yiddish songwriter (d. 1925)
- November 18 â W. S. Gilbert, dramatist, poet and librettist (d. 1911)
- November 23 â Wilhelm Barge, flautist (died 1925)
- December 2 â 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 â Friedrich Witt, cellist and composer (b. 1770)
- February 8 â Franziska Stading, opera singer (b. 1763)
- February 22 â John Clarke Whitfield, organist and composer (b. 1770)
- May 7 â Norbert Burgmüller, composer (b. 1810) (drowned)
- May 28 â Anton Reicha, composer (b. 1770)
- June 9 â Supply Belcher, composer, singer, and compiler of tune books (b. 1751)
- June 26 â Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of "La Marseillaise" (b. 1760)
- September 19 â Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer (born 1770)
- September 21 â 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 â Giuseppe Ciccimarra, operatic tenor (b. 1790)
- December 12 â Giuseppe Farinelli, composer (born 1769)
- December 26 â Hans Georg Nägeli, composer and music publisher (b. 1773)
- December 29 â Johann Baptist Schenk, Austrian composer and teacher (b. 1753)