1846 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

Hector Berlioz – La damnation de Faust
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)

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)

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)
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)

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)