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Overview of the events of 1846 in music
Published popular music
[edit]- Hector Berlioz – La damnation de Faust
- Anton Bruckner
- Tantum ergo, WAB 41, 42
- "Ständchen", WAB 84.2
- Frederic Chopin
- 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
- January 2 – Sándor Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
- February 24 – Luigi Denza, composer (d. 1922)[3]
- 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)
- April 2 – Albert Périlhou, organist, pianist and composer (d. 1936)
- April 5 – Arthur Byron, tenor (d. 1890)[4]
- 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
- 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)[5]
- date unknown
- February 3 – Joseph Weigl the younger, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
- February 13 – Johann Bernhard Logier, music teacher (b. 1777)
- February 18
- February 22 – Carel Anton Fodor, Dutch pianist and conductor (b. 1768)
- April 6 – Domenico Dragonetti, double-bass player (b. 1763)[6]
- 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)
- 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)[7]
- 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
