# 1835 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1835.

## Events

* January 2 – The Neue Leipziger Zeitschrift für Musik, edited by Robert Schumann, changes its name to Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
* January 24 – Postponed premiere Vincenzo Bellini's I puritani in Théâtre-Italien Paris
* January 25 – Hector Berlioz becomes resident music critic for the Journal des débats.
* May 4 – Samuel Sebastian Wesley, son of the composer Samuel Wesley, grandson of Charles Wesley, and organist of Hereford Cathedral, elopes with and marries Mary Anne Merewether, sister of the cathedral's dean.
* June 4 – Franz Liszt joins his mistress, Marie d'Agoult, in Basel, Switzerland.
* July 8 – Dan Emmett is discharged from the US Army and begins his career as a blackface banjoist and singer.
* October – Contralto Clorinda Corradi relocates to Havana, Cuba.
* November 9 – At a concert in Johann Sebastian Bach's home city of Leipzig, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Wieck and Louis Rakeman perform Bach's Concerto in D minor for three keyboards and orchestra.
* November 28 – 25-year-old Robert Schumann and 16-year-old Clara Wieck begin their romance.
* December 14 – The St James's Theatre, London, opens with an "operatic burletta", Agnes Sorel.
* Soprano Fanny Corri-Paltoni makes her last known stage appearance, at Alessandria in Italy.
* Gioachino Rossini completes Les soirées musicales which includes the patter song "La Danza".
* Music department added to the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.

## Publications

* Luigi Cherubini – Cours de contrepoint et de fugue

## Classical music

* Frédéric Chopin – Ballade No. 1
* John Field – Nocturne No.14 in C major, H.60
* Mikhail Glinka – Mazurka in F major
* Fanny Hensel
** Wandl’ich In Dem Wald Des Abends, H-U 283
** Ich Stand Gelehnet An Den Mast, H-U 284
** über Allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh’, H-U 285
** Wenn Der Frühling Kommt. H-U 286
** Der Strauß H-U 287
* Franz Liszt
** Duo (Sonata) on Polish Themes, for violin and piano, S.127
** Réminiscences de La juive, for solo piano, S.409a
* Otto Nicolai – Gran marcia funebre
* Ferdinand Ries – Symphony No. 7
* Robert Schumann – Carnaval, Op. 9
* Alicia Anne Spottiswoode – "Annie Laurie"
* Giuseppe Verdi – Messa solenne (Messa di Gloria)
* Samuel Sebastian Wesley – Larghetto for Organ in F minor

## Opera

* Princess Amalie of Saxony – La casa disabitata
* Daniel Auber – Le cheval de bronze
* Vincenzo Bellini – I puritani
* Gaetano Donizetti
** Lucia di Lammermoor
** Maria Stuarda
* Fromental Halévy
** L'éclair
** La Juive
* Giuseppe Persiani – Ines de Castro
* Mikhail Zagoskin – Askold's Grave (Аскольдова могила, Askol’dova mogila)

## Births

* January 14 – Felix Otto Dessoff, conductor and composer (died 1892)
* January 23 – August Lanner, composer
* February 14 – Louis Gallet, librettist (died 1898)
* February 24 – John Henry Martin, band instrument manufacturer (died 1910)
* March 1 – Ebenezer Prout, composer (died 1909)
* March 15 – Eduard Strauss, composer (died 1916)
* March 24 – August Winding, composer (died 1899)
* March 30 – Bernhard Scholz, composer (died 1916)
* July 10 – Henryk Wieniawski, violinist and composer (died 1880)
* August 12 – Peter Piel, composer (died 1904)
* August 20 – Oscar Stoumon, music critic and composer (died 1900)
* September 28 – Jean Louis Gobbaerts, pianist (died 1886)
* October 7 – Felix Draeseke, composer (died 1913)
* October 9 – Camille Saint-Saëns, composer (died 1921)
* October 11 – Theodore Thomas, conductor (died 1905)
* November 25 – Joseph Glæser, organist and composer (died 1891)
* December 1 – Carl Johan Frydensberg, composer (died 1904)
* December 12 – Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer (died 1908)
* date unknown – Abu Khalil Qabbani, Syrian dramatist and composer (died 1902)

## Deaths

* February 19 – Amzi Chapin, cabinetmaker, singing-school teacher and shape note composer
* April 23 – Joseph Antonio Emidy, violinist and composer (born 1775)
* April 25 – François Tourte, bowmaker (born 1747)
* May 9 – Sebastian Mayer, operatic bass (born 1773)
* August 3 – Wenzel Müller, composer (born 1767)
* August 10 – Claus Schall, violinist and composer (born 1757)
* September 23 – Vincenzo Bellini, composer (born 1801)
* October 21 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, youngest of the Carnatic music composer trinity (born 1775)
* November 19
** Thomas Linley the elder, musician and founder of a musical dynasty (born 1733)
** Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, banker and father of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn (born 1776)