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1836 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1836.

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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 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

    1836 in music Wikipedia
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