1836 in music

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
• 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, 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"
• "Morning Star"

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
• February 21 – Léo Delibes, composer
• February 22 – Mitrofan Belyayev, music publisher
• March 21 – Bertha Tammelin, Swedish musician, composer and singer
• March 24 – Eufrosyne Abrahamson, Swedish soprano
• April 8 – Henry Brougham Farnie, librettist
• June 12 – Bernardine Hamaekers, Belgian opera singer
• June 29 – Thomas Philander Ryder, composer, organist, teacher, conductor, and organ builder
• October 27 – Luigi Hugues, geographer, flautist and composer
• October 28 – Eliakum Zunser, Yiddish songwriter
• November 18 – W. S. Gilbert, dramatist, poet and librettist
• November 23 – Wilhelm Barge, flautist
• December 2 – Giuseppe Donati, inventor of the ocarina
• date unknown
• *Tamburi Ali Efendi, Turkish tanbur virtuoso and composer
• *Marie Proksch, pianist

Deaths

• January 3 – Friedrich Witt, cellist and composer
• February 8 – Franziska Stading, opera singer
• February 22 – John Clarke Whitfield, organist and composer
• May 7 – Norbert Burgmüller, composer
• May 28 – Anton Reicha, composer
• June 9 – Supply Belcher, composer, singer, and compiler of tune books
• June 26 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of "La Marseillaise"
• September 19 – Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer
• September 21 – John Stafford Smith, British composer, organist and musicologist
• September 23
• *Maria Malibran, operatic soprano
• *Andreas Razumovsky, patron of Ludwig van Beethoven
• December 5 – Giuseppe Ciccimarra, operatic tenor
• December 12 – Giuseppe Farinelli, composer
• December 26 – Hans Georg Nägeli, composer and music publisher
• December 29 – Johann Baptist Schenk, Austrian composer and teacher