1846 in music

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Events

• August 16 - Gioachino Rossini marries artist's model Olympe Pélissier.
• Adolphe Sax patents the "saxophone".
• Electric lighting is installed at the Paris Opéra.

Published popular music

• "The Indian's Prayer"     w. Anonymous, m. I.B. Woodbury
• "When the Swallows Homeward Fly"     w.m. Franz Abt

Oratorio

• Felix Mendelssohn - Elijah
• César Franck - Ruth

Classical music

• Hector Berlioz - La damnation de Faust
• Henry Litolff - Concerto Symphonique No 3 in E flat, Op. 45 (approximately 1846)
• Felix Mendelssohn - Lauda Sion, Op. 73
• Jules Perrot - Catarina or La Fille du Bandit (ballet}

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)

Births

• January 2 - Sándor Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
• February 24 - Luigi Denza, composer (d. 1922)
• February 27 - Joaquín Valverde Durán, flautist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
• March 29 - Louise Pyk, Swedish opera singer (d. 1929)
• April 2 - Albert Périlhou, organist, pianist and composer (d. 1936)
• May 2 - Zygmunt Noskowski, conductor and composer (d. 1909)
• May 22 - Francis Hueffer, music critic (d. 1889)
• July 2 - Rosina Brandram, opera singer and actress (d. 1907)
• July 29 - Sophie Menter, pianist and composer (d. 1918)
• 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)
  • Amanda Forsberg, ballerina
  • Valentina Serova, composer (d. 1924)
  • Peppino Turco, songwriter (d. 1907)

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)
• July 23 - 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
  • Dede Efendi, composer (b. 1778)
  • Eliza Flower, musician and composer (b. 1803)
  • Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky, subject of a famous musical hoax
  • Sophie Weber, singer (b. c. 1763)