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This article is about music-related events in 1836 .

Events

June 7 – Huddersfield Choral Society formed in the north of England.^[1]
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"^[2]^{[ failed verification ]}

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)^[3]
"Morning Star" (music by Francis F. Hagen)^[4]

Publications

John Addison – Singing Practically Treated in a Series of Instructions^[5]
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)^[6]
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)

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References

↑ Wilmshurst, W. L. Huddersfield Choral Society Centenary Memorial 1836-1936. p. 6.
↑ "Trove".
↑ James J. Fuld (1 January 2000). The Book of World-famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk. Courier Corporation. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-486-41475-1.
↑ Nancy Smith Thomas Moravian Christmas in the South - Page 54 - 2007 "The memorable hymn "Morning Star," with music composed by Salem native Francis Hagen, is believed to have been performed for the first time on Christmas Eve 1836 in Salem. No one who has ever attended a Christmas lovefeast ..."
↑ Milsom, David (2017). Classical and Romantic Music. Routledge. p. 26. ISBN 9781351571753.
↑ Anthony Peattie; George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood (1997). The New Kobbé's Opera Book. G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 181-3. ISBN 9780399143328.

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[1] Wilmshurst, W. L. Huddersfield Choral Society Centenary Memorial 1836-1936. p. 6.

[2] "Trove".

[3] James J. Fuld (1 January 2000). The Book of World-famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk. Courier Corporation. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-486-41475-1.

[4] Nancy Smith Thomas Moravian Christmas in the South - Page 54 - 2007 "The memorable hymn "Morning Star," with music composed by Salem native Francis Hagen, is believed to have been performed for the first time on Christmas Eve 1836 in Salem. No one who has ever attended a Christmas lovefeast ..."

[5] Milsom, David (2017). Classical and Romantic Music. Routledge. p. 26. ISBN 9781351571753.

[6] Anthony Peattie; George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood (1997). The New Kobbé's Opera Book. G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 181-3. ISBN 9780399143328.

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