1846 in music

1846 in music

Events

*Adolphe Sax patened 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

* "Elijah" by Felix Mendelssohn
* "Ruth" by César Auguste Franck

Classical music

* "Symphony in C major" ("2nd symphony") - Robert Schumann

Opera

*Julius Benedict - "The Crusaders"
*Hector Berlioz - "La Damnation de Faust"
*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
*February 26 - George C. Stebbins
*November 2 - Antonio Pena y Goni

Deaths

*February 3 - Joseph Weigl the younger, composer and conductor
*February 18 - William Hawes, choirmaster
*April 16 - Domenico Dragonetti, double-bass player
*April 24 - Girolamo Crescentini, "castrato" singer
*August 7 - Johann Heinrich Christian Rinck
*"date unknown" - Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky, subject of a famous musical hoax


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