1836 in music

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
• 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
• Gaetano Donizetti – Belisario
• Mikhail Glinka – A Life for the Tsar
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Les Huguenots
• Richard Wagner – Das Liebesverbot

  Popular music

• !Fair Harvard"
• "Morning Star"

  Publications

• John Addison – Singing Practically Treated in a Series of Instructions

  Births

• 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
• 12 June – 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
• December 2 – Giuseppe Donati, inventor of the ocarina
• date unknown – Tamburi Ali Efendi, Turkish tanbur virtuoso and composer

  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 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 26 – Hans Georg Nägeli, composer and music publisher
• December 29 – Johann Baptist Schenk, Austrian composer and teacher