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 (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"
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) "Morning Star" (music by Francis F. Hagen)
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 (died 1901) February 21 – Léo Delibes, composer (d. 1891) 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)