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
- 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
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