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)