1846 in music
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[edit] Events
- Adolphe Sax patents the "saxophone".
- Electric lighting is installed at the Paris Opéra.
[edit] Published popular music
- "The Indian's Prayer" w. Anonymous, m. I.B. Woodbury
- "When the Swallows Homeward Fly" w.m. Franz Abt
[edit] Oratorio
- Felix Mendelssohn - Elijah
- César Franck - Ruth
[edit] Classical music
- Hector Berlioz - La damnation de Faust
- Henry Charles Litolff - Concerto Symphonique No 3 in E flat, Op. 45 (approximately 1846)
- Felix Mendelssohn - Lauda Sion, Op. 73
- Robert Schumann Symphony in C major (2nd symphony)
[edit] Opera
- Julius Benedict - The Crusaders
- Albert Lortzing - Der Waffenschmied
- Saverio Mercadante - Orazi e Curiazi
- Karel Miry - Wit en zwart (opera in 1 act, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on January 18 in Ghent)
[edit] Births
- January 2 - Sándor Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
- February 24 - Luigi Denza, composer (d. 1922)
- April 2 - Albert Périlhou, organist, pianist and composer (d. 1936)
- May 22 - Francis Hueffer, music critic (d. 1889)
- July 2 - Rosina Brandram, opera singer and actress (d. 1907)
- September 21 - Catherine Chislova, ballerina (d. 1889)
- November 7 - Ignaz Brüll, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
- November 23 - Ernst von Schuch, conductor (d. 1914)
- date unknown
- Johan Amberg, composer (d. 1928)
- Valentina Serova, composer (d. 1924)
- Peppino Turco, songwriter (d. 1907)
[edit] Deaths
- February 3 - Joseph Weigl the younger, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
- February 13 - Johann Bernhard Logier, music teacher (b. 1777)
- February 18 - William Hawes, choirmaster (b. 1785)
- April 16 - Domenico Dragonetti, double-bass player (b. 1763)
- April 24 - Girolamo Crescentini, castrato singer (b. 1766)
- August 7 - Christian Heinrich Rinck, organist and composer (b. 1770)
- August 10 - Johann Simon Hermstedt, clarinettist (b. 1778)
- November 1 - Franz Anton Ries, violinist (b. 1755)
- December 25 - Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, Maharajah of Travancore, musician, composer and patron of the arts (b. 1813)
- date unknown
- Eliza Flower, musician and composer (b. 1803)
- Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky, subject of a famous musical hoax
- Sophie Weber, singer (b. c. 1763)
