1846 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Oratorio 4 Classical music 5 Opera 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Adolphe Sax invents the "saxophone".
• Electric lighting is installed at the Paris Opéra.

[edit] Published popular music

• "When The Swallows Homeward Fly"     w.m. Franz Abt

[edit] Oratorio

• Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn
• Ruth by César Auguste Franck

[edit] Classical music

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

[edit] Opera

• Julius Benedict - The Crusaders
• Hector Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust
• Albert Lortzing - Der Waffenschmied
• Saverio Mercadante - Orazi e Curiazi

[edit] 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

[edit] 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