- 1836 in music
Events
*April - 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.
*November 24 -Richard Wagner marries Christine Wilhelmine "Minna" Planer.Classical music
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Felix Mendelssohn - "St Paul" (oratorio)Opera *
Adolphe Adam - "Le Postillon de Longjumeau"
*Gaetano Donizetti - "Belisario "
*Mikhail Glinka - "A Life for the Tsar"
*Giacomo Meyerbeer - "Les Huguenots"Births
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February 21 -Léo Delibes , composer (d. 1891)
*February 22 -Mitrofan Belyayev , music publisher (d. 1904)
*October 27 -Luigi Hugues , geographer, flautist and composer (d. 1913)
*November 18 -W. S. Gilbert , dramatist, poet and librettist (d. 1911)
*"date unknown"
**Giuseppe Donati , inventor of theocarina (d. 1925)
**Eliakum Zunser , Yiddish songwriter (d. 1925)Deaths
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January 3 -Friedrich Witt , cellist and composer (b. 1770)
*February 8 -Franziska Stading , opera singer (b. 1763)
*May 7 -Norbert Burgmüller , composer (b. 1810) (drowned)
*May 28 -Anton Reicha , composer (b. 1770)
*September 23
**Maria Malibran , operatic soprano (b. 1808)
**Andreas Razumovsky , patron ofLudwig van Beethoven (b. 1752)
*December 5 -Giuseppe Ciccimarra , operatic tenor (b. 1790)
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