# 1846 in music
## Events

* June 28 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone.
* August 16 – Gioachino Rossini marries artist's model Olympe Pélissier.
* unknown date – Electric spotlighting is used to simulate sunrise in a production of Rossini's opera Moses at the Paris Opera.

## Published popular music

* "Lijepa naša domovino" Croatian national anthem m. Josip Runjanin w. Antun Mihanović (written in 1835)
* "The Indian's Prayer" w. Anonymous, m. I.B. Woodbury
* "There's a Good Time Coming" by Stephen Foster
* "Well-A-Day" by George Linley
* "When the Swallows Homeward Fly" w.m. Franz Abt

## Oratorio

* César Franck – Ruth
* Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah

## Classical music

* Hector Berlioz – La damnation de Faust
* Anton Bruckner
** Tantum ergo, WAB 41, 42
** "Ständchen", WAB 84.2
* Frederic Chopin
** Polonaise-Fantaisie
** Barcarolle
* Carl Czerny – Impromptu Fugué, Op.776
* Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst – Rondo Papageno, Op.20
* Henry Litolff – Concerto Symphonique No 3 in E-flat, Op. 45 (approximately 1846)
* Fanny Mendelssohn
** 4 Lieder for Piano, Op.2
** Allegretto (C♯ minor), H-U 420 (Op.4, No.2)
* Felix Mendelssohn – Lauda Sion, Op. 73
* Jules Perrot – Catarina or La Fille du Bandit (ballet)
* František Škroup – Clarinet Trio, Op.27

## Opera

* Julius Benedict – The Crusaders
* Eduard James Loder – The Night Dancers
* Albert Lortzing – Der Waffenschmied
* Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann – Liden Kirsten, Op.44, premiered May 12 in Copenhagen
* Saverio Mercadante – Orazi e Curiazi
* Karel Miry – Wit en zwart (opera in 1 act, with libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premièred on January 18 in Ghent)
* Franz von Suppé – Poet and Peasant (24 August, Theater an der Wien, Vienna)

## Births

* January 2 – Sándor Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
* February 24 – Luigi Denza, composer (d. 1922)
* February 26 – Amanda Forsberg, Swedish ballerina (date of death unknown)
* February 27 – Joaquín Valverde Durán, flautist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
* March 7 – Peppino Turco, songwriter (d. 1907)
* March 11 – Constance Bache, composer (died 1903)
* March 29 – Louise Pyk, Swedish opera singer (d. 1929)
* April 2 – Albert Périlhou, organist, pianist and composer (d. 1936)
* April 5 – Arthur Byron, tenor (d. 1890)
* May 2 – Zygmunt Noskowski, conductor and composer (d. 1909)
* May 22 – Francis Hueffer, music critic (d. 1889)
* June 23 – Anton Svendsen, violinist (died 1930)
* July 2 – Rosina Brandram, opera singer and actress (d. 1907)
* July 3 – Achilles Alferaki, composer (died 1919)
* July 22 – Alfred Perceval Graves, lyricist (died 1931)
* July 29 – Sophie Menter, pianist and composer (d. 1918)
* August 17 – Marie Jaëll, composer (died 1925)
* August 24 – 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 – Johan Amberg, composer (d. 1928)
* November 7 – Ignaz Brüll, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
* November 23 – Ernst von Schuch, conductor (d. 1914)
* December 29 – Rosa Asmundsen, Norwegian singer (d. 1911)
* date unknown
** José María de Arteaga y Pereira, composer (died 1913)
** Valentina Serova, composer (d. 1924)

## Deaths

* February 3 – Joseph Weigl the younger, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
* February 13 – Johann Bernhard Logier, music teacher (b. 1777)
* February 18
** William Hawes, choirmaster (b. 1785)
** Gottlob Schuberth, musician (born 1778)
* February 22 – Carel Anton Fodor, Dutch pianist and conductor (b. 1768)
* April 6 – Domenico Dragonetti, double-bass player (b. 1763)
* April 24 – Girolamo Crescentini, castrato singer (b. 1766)
* July 23 – Christian Heinrich Rinck, organist and composer (b. 1770)
* August 10 – Johann Simon Hermstedt, clarinettist (b. 1778)
* August 27 – Gottfried Wilhelm Fink, music theorist (born 1783)
* September 14 – Carl Almenräder, bassoonist and composer (b. 1786)
* November 1 – Franz Anton Ries, violinist (b. 1755)
* November 30 – Maria Severa Onofriana, Portuguese singer and guitarist, considered the founder of fado (b. 1820)
* December 12 – Eliza Flower, musician and composer (b. 1803)
* December 25 – 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)