1846 in music
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Events
- June 28 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone.
- August 16 – Gioachino Rossini marries artist's model Olympe Pélissier.
- Electric spotlighting is installed at the Paris Opera.
Published popular music
- "The Indian's Prayer" w. Anonymous, m. I.B. Woodbury
- "When the Swallows Homeward Fly" w.m. Franz Abt
- "Lijepa naša domovino" Croatian national anthem m. Josip Runjanin w. Antun Mihanović (written in 1835)
Oratorio
- Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah
- César Franck – Ruth
Classical music
- Hector Berlioz – La damnation de Faust
- Anton Bruckner
- Tantum ergo, WAB 41, 42
- "Ständchen", WAB 84.2
- 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)
- Frederic Chopin
Opera
- Julius Benedict – The Crusaders
- Albert Lortzing – Der Waffenschmied
- 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)
- February 26 – Amanda Forsberg, ballerina (date of death unknown)
- February 27 – Joaquín Valverde Durán, flautist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
- March 7 – Peppino Turco, songwriter (d. 1907)
- 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)
- 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)
- date unknown – 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)
- February 22 – Carel Anton Fodor, Dutch pianist and conductor (b. 1768)
- 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 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)
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