1846 in music

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Events

June 28 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone.^[1]
August 16 – Gioachino Rossini marries artist's model Olympe Pélissier.^[2]
unknown date – Electric spotlighting is used to simulate sunrise in a production of Rossini's opera Moses at the Paris Opera.^[3]

Published popular music

"Lijepa naša domovino" Croatian national anthem m. Josip Runjanin w. Antun Mihanović (written in 1835)
"The Indian's Prayer" w. Anonymous, m. I.B. Woodbury
"There's a Good Time Coming" by Stephen Foster^[4]
"Well-A-Day" by George Linley
"When the Swallows Homeward Fly" w.m. Franz Abt

Oratorio

César Franck – Ruth^[5]
Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah

Classical music

Hector Berlioz – La damnation de Faust
Anton Bruckner
- Tantum ergo, WAB 41, 42
- "Ständchen", WAB 84.2
Frederic Chopin
- Polonaise-Fantaisie
- Barcarolle
Carl Czerny – Impromptu Fugué, Op.776
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst – Rondo Papageno, Op.20
Henry Litolff – Concerto Symphonique No 3 in E-flat, Op. 45 (approximately 1846)
Fanny Mendelssohn
- 4 Lieder for Piano, Op.2
- Allegretto (C♯ minor), H-U 420 (Op.4, No.2)
Felix Mendelssohn – Lauda Sion, Op. 73
Jules Perrot – Catarina or La Fille du Bandit (ballet)
František Škroup – Clarinet Trio, Op.27

Opera

Julius Benedict – The Crusaders
Eduard James Loder – The Night Dancers
Albert Lortzing – Der Waffenschmied
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann – Liden Kirsten, Op.44, premiered May 12 in Copenhagen^[6]
Saverio Mercadante – Orazi e Curiazi
Karel Miry – Wit en zwart (opera in 1 act, with libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premièred on January 18 in Ghent)
Franz von Suppé – Poet and Peasant (24 August, Theater an der Wien, Vienna)

Births

January 2 – Sándor Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
February 24 – Luigi Denza, composer (d. 1922)^[7]
February 26 – Amanda Forsberg, Swedish ballerina (date of death unknown)
February 27 – Joaquín Valverde Durán, flautist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
March 7 – Peppino Turco, songwriter (d. 1907)
March 11 – Constance Bache, composer (died 1903)
March 29 – Louise Pyk, Swedish opera singer (d. 1929)^[8]
April 2 – Albert Périlhou, organist, pianist and composer (d. 1936)
April 5 – Arthur Byron, tenor (d. 1890)^[9]
May 2 – Zygmunt Noskowski, conductor and composer (d. 1909)
May 22 – Francis Hueffer, music critic (d. 1889)
June 23 – Anton Svendsen, violinist (died 1930)
July 2 – Rosina Brandram, opera singer and actress (d. 1907)
July 3 – Achilles Alferaki, composer (died 1919)
July 22 – Alfred Perceval Graves, lyricist (died 1931)
July 29 – Sophie Menter, pianist and composer (d. 1918)
August 17 – Marie Jaëll, composer (died 1925)
August 24 – Paul Rougnon, pianist and composer (d. 1934)
September 21
- Catherine Chislova, ballerina (d. 1889)
- Juliana Walanika, the "Hawaiian Nightingale", court singer (d. 1931)
October 20 – Johan Amberg, composer (d. 1928)
November 7 – Ignaz Brüll, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
November 23 – Ernst von Schuch, conductor (d. 1914)
December 29 – Rosa Asmundsen, Norwegian singer (d. 1911)^[10]
date unknown
- José María de Arteaga y Pereira, composer (died 1913)
- Valentina Serova, composer (d. 1924)

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)
- Gottlob Schuberth, musician (born 1778)
February 22 – Carel Anton Fodor, Dutch pianist and conductor (b. 1768)
April 6 – Domenico Dragonetti, double-bass player (b. 1763)^[11]
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)^[12]
August 27 – Gottfried Wilhelm Fink, music theorist (born 1783)
September 14 – Carl Almenräder, bassoonist and composer (b. 1786)
November 1 – Franz Anton Ries, violinist (b. 1755)
November 30 – Maria Severa Onofriana, Portuguese singer and guitarist, considered the founder of fado (b. 1820)^[13]
December 12 – Eliza Flower, musician and composer (b. 1803)
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)
- Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky, subject of a famous musical hoax
- Sophie Weber, singer (b. c. 1763)

References

^ Raumberger, Ventzke, Claus, Karl (2001). "Saxophone". Oxford Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.24670. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. Retrieved 6 April 2019.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Denise Gallo, ed. (2012). Gioachino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide. Taylor & Francis. p. 27. ISBN 9781135847012.
^ Central Electric Light and Power Stations, 1902. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1905. p. 87.
^ Julie M. Jensen; McLeod County Historical Society (2013). Hutchinson. Arcadia Publishing. p. 97. ISBN 9781467110105.
^ Vallas, Léon (1951). César Franck. Oxford University Press. pp. 75–6. ISBN 0-837-16873-2
^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Liden Kirsten premieres". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
^ Meloncelli, Raoul (1990). "Luigi Denza". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-01-26 – via Treccani.it.
^ Miss SKBL name as parameter
^ Kurt Ganzl (2017). "Byron, Arthur (Edward George)". Victorian Vocalists. Taylor & Francis. p. 93. ISBN 9781351593663.
^ Jensson, Liv (1981). Biografisk skuespillerleksikon : norske, danske og svenske skuespillere på norske scener særlig på 1800-tallet (in Norwegian). Universitetsforl. p. 18. ISBN 8200056228.
^ Erwin Doernberg (August 1963). "Domenico Dragonetti: 1763-1846". The Musical Times. 104 (1446). Musical Times Publications Ltd: 546–548.
^ A. M. Stoneham; Jon A. Gillaspie; David L. Clark (1997). Wind Ensemble Sourcebook and Biographical Guide. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 195. ISBN 9780313298585.
^ Paul Vernon (1998). A History of the Portuguese Fado. Ashgate. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-85928-377-6.

[1] Raumberger, Ventzke, Claus, Karl (2001). "Saxophone". Oxford Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.24670. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. Retrieved 6 April 2019.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[2] Denise Gallo, ed. (2012). Gioachino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide. Taylor & Francis. p. 27. ISBN 9781135847012.

[3] Central Electric Light and Power Stations, 1902. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1905. p. 87.

[4] Julie M. Jensen; McLeod County Historical Society (2013). Hutchinson. Arcadia Publishing. p. 97. ISBN 9781467110105.

[5] Vallas, Léon (1951). César Franck. Oxford University Press. pp. 75–6. ISBN 0-837-16873-2

[6] Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Liden Kirsten premieres". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).

[7] Meloncelli, Raoul (1990). "Luigi Denza". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-01-26 – via Treccani.it.

[8] Miss SKBL name as parameter

[9] Kurt Ganzl (2017). "Byron, Arthur (Edward George)". Victorian Vocalists. Taylor & Francis. p. 93. ISBN 9781351593663.

[10] Jensson, Liv (1981). Biografisk skuespillerleksikon : norske, danske og svenske skuespillere på norske scener særlig på 1800-tallet (in Norwegian). Universitetsforl. p. 18. ISBN 8200056228.

[11] Erwin Doernberg (August 1963). "Domenico Dragonetti: 1763-1846". The Musical Times. 104 (1446). Musical Times Publications Ltd: 546–548.

[12] A. M. Stoneham; Jon A. Gillaspie; David L. Clark (1997). Wind Ensemble Sourcebook and Biographical Guide. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 195. ISBN 9780313298585.

[Vernon1998-13] Paul Vernon (1998). A History of the Portuguese Fado. Ashgate. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-85928-377-6.

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