1846 in music
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Events
- June 28 â Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone.[1]
- August 16 â Gioachino Rossini marries artist's model Olympe Pélissier.[2]
- unknown date â Electric spotlighting is used to simulate sunrise in a production of Rossini's opera Moses at the Paris Opera.[3]
Published popular music
- "Lijepa naÅ¡a domovino" Croatian national anthem m. Josip Runjanin w. Antun MihanoviÄ (written in 1835)
- "The Indian's Prayer" w. Anonymous, m. I.B. Woodbury
- "There's a Good Time Coming" by Stephen Foster[4]
- "Well-A-Day" by George Linley
- "When the Swallows Homeward Fly" w.m. Franz Abt
Oratorio
- César Franck â Ruth[5]
- Felix Mendelssohn â Elijah
Classical music
- Hector Berlioz â La damnation de Faust
- Anton Bruckner
- Tantum ergo, WAB 41, 42
- "Ständchen", WAB 84.2
- Frederic Chopin
- Carl Czerny â Impromptu Fugué, Op.776
- Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst â Rondo Papageno, Op.20
- Henry Litolff â Concerto Symphonique No 3 in E-flat, Op. 45 (approximately 1846)
- Fanny Hensel
- 4 Lieder for Piano, Op.2
- Allegretto (C⯠minor), H-U 420 (Op.4, No.2)
- Felix Mendelssohn â Lauda Sion, Op. 73
- Jules Perrot â Catarina or La Fille du Bandit (ballet)
- FrantiÅ¡ek Å kroup â Clarinet Trio, Op.27
Opera
- Julius Benedict â The Crusaders
- Eduard James Loder â The Night Dancers
- Albert Lortzing â Der Waffenschmied
- Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann â Liden Kirsten, Op.44, premiered May 12 in Copenhagen[6]
- Saverio Mercadante â Orazi e Curiazi
- Karel Miry â Wit en zwart (opera in 1 act, with libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premièred on January 18 in Ghent)
- Franz von Suppé â Poet and Peasant (24 August, Theater an der Wien, Vienna)
Births
- January 2 â Sándor Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
- February 24 â Luigi Denza, composer (d. 1922)[7]
- February 26 â Amanda Forsberg, Swedish ballerina (date of death unknown)
- February 27 â JoaquÃn Valverde Durán, flautist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
- March 7 â Peppino Turco, songwriter (d. 1907)
- March 11 â Constance Bache, composer (died 1903)
- March 29 â Louise Pyk, Swedish opera singer (d. 1929)[8]
- April 2 â Albert Périlhou, organist, pianist and composer (d. 1936)
- April 5 â Arthur Byron, tenor (d. 1890)[9]
- May 2 â Zygmunt Noskowski, conductor and composer (d. 1909)
- May 22 â Francis Hueffer, music critic (d. 1889)
- June 23 â Anton Svendsen, violinist (died 1930)
- July 2 â Rosina Brandram, opera singer and actress (d. 1907)
- July 3 â Achilles Alferaki, composer (died 1919)
- July 22 â Alfred Perceval Graves, lyricist (died 1931)
- July 29 â Sophie Menter, pianist and composer (d. 1918)
- August 17 â Marie Jaëll, composer (died 1925)
- August 24 â Paul Rougnon, pianist and composer (d. 1934)
- September 21
- Catherine Chislova, ballerina (d. 1889)
- Juliana Walanika, the "Hawaiian Nightingale", court singer (d. 1931)
- October 20 â Johan Amberg, composer (d. 1928)
- November 7 â Ignaz Brüll, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
- November 23 â Ernst von Schuch, conductor (d. 1914)
- December 29 â Rosa Asmundsen, Norwegian singer (d. 1911)[10]
- date unknown
- José MarÃa de Arteaga y Pereira, composer (died 1913)
- Valentina Serova, composer (d. 1924)
Deaths
- February 3 â Joseph Weigl the younger, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
- February 13 â Johann Bernhard Logier, music teacher (b. 1777)
- February 18
- William Hawes, choirmaster (b. 1785)
- Gottlob Schuberth, musician (born 1778)
- February 22 â Carel Anton Fodor, Dutch pianist and conductor (b. 1768)
- April 6 â Domenico Dragonetti, double-bass player (b. 1763)[11]
- April 24 â Girolamo Crescentini, castrato singer (b. 1766)
- July 23 â Christian Heinrich Rinck, organist and composer (b. 1770)
- August 10 â Johann Simon Hermstedt, clarinettist (b. 1778)[12]
- August 27 â Gottfried Wilhelm Fink, music theorist (born 1783)
- September 14 â Carl Almenräder, bassoonist and composer (b. 1786)
- November 1 â Franz Anton Ries, violinist (b. 1755)
- November 30 â Maria Severa Onofriana, Portuguese singer and guitarist, considered the founder of fado (b. 1820)[13]
- December 12 â Eliza Flower, musician and composer (b. 1803)
- December 25 â Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, Maharajah of Travancore, musician, composer and patron of the arts (b. 1813)
- date unknown
- Dede Efendi, composer (b. 1778)
- Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky, subject of a famous musical hoax
- Sophie Weber, singer (b. c. 1763)