# 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)