1836 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1836.

Events

• June 7 – Huddersfield Choral Society formed in the north of England.^[1]
• 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 Christine Wilhelmine "Minna" Planer.
• Saverio Mercadante is invited to Paris by Gioacchino Rossini.

Classical music

• William Sterndale Bennett – Overture to The Naiads
• Fanny Mendelssohn – Frühzeitiger Frühling
• Felix Mendelssohn – St Paul (oratorio)
• Robert Schumann – Fantasie in C

Opera

• Adolphe Adam – Le Postillon de Longjumeau
• Louise Bertin – La Esmeralda (with libretto by Victor Hugo)
• Gaetano Donizetti – Belisario
• Mikhail Glinka – A Life for the Tsar
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Les Huguenots
• Richard Wagner – Das Liebesverbot

Publications

• John Addison – Singing Practically Treated in a Series of Instructions

Births

• 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)
• 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)
• December 2 – Giuseppe Donati, inventor of the ocarina (d. 1925)
• date unknown – Tamburi Ali Efendi, Turkish tanbur virtuoso and composer (d. 1902)

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 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 26 – Hans Georg Nägeli, composer and music publisher (b. 1773)
• December 29 – Johann Baptist Schenk, Austrian composer and teacher (b. 1753)
• date unknown – Joseph Reinagle, cellist and composer (b. 1762)

References