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 (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)