This article is about music-related events in 1836.

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• June 7 – Huddersfield Choral Society formed in the north of England.^[1]
• July – 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.
• September 9 – Frédéric Chopin proposes marriage to Maria Wodzinski in Marienbad.
• November 24 – Richard Wagner marries Minna Planer.
• Saverio Mercadante is invited to Paris by Gioacchino Rossini.

• William Sterndale Bennett – Overture to The Naiads
• Henri Bertini – 2 Nocturnes, Op.102
• Ernesto Cavallini – 3 Duos for 2 Clarinets
• Gaetano Donizetti
  • String Quartet No.18, A 482
  • Viva il matrimonio (Se tu giri tutto il mondo)
• Louise Farrenc – Air russe varie, Op. 17
• Auguste Franchomme – Chant d’Adieux
• Franz Paul Lachner – Symphony No.5, Op.52
• Fanny Mendelssohn – Frühzeitiger Frühling
• Felix Mendelssohn – St. Paul
• Robert Schumann – Fantasie in C
• Henri Vieuxtemps – Violin Concerto No. 2 in F♯ minor
• Issac Nathan – "Queen of Evening"^{[2][failed verification]}

• Adolphe Adam – Le Postillon de Longjumeau
• Louise Bertin – La Esmeralda (with libretto by Victor Hugo), premiered November 14 in Paris
• Gaetano Donizetti
  • L'assedio di Calais, premiered November 18 in Naples
  • Belisario
  • Il campanello, premiered June 1 in Naples
• Mikhail Glinka – A Life for the Tsar
• Saverio Mercadante – I Briganti, premiered March 22 in Paris
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Les Huguenots
• Richard Wagner – Das Liebesverbot

• "Fair Harvard" (lyrics by Samuel Gilman)^[3]
• "Morning Star" (music by Francis F. Hagen)^[4]

• John Addison – Singing Practically Treated in a Series of Instructions^[5]
• Dionisio Aguado – La Guitare, méthode simple
• Adolphe Miné – Méthode d'orgue

• February 16 – Benjamin Edward Woolf, violinist (died 1901)
• February 21 – Léo Delibes, composer (d. 1891)^[6]
• February 22 – Mitrofan Belyayev, music publisher (d. 1904)
• March 21 – Bertha Tammelin, Swedish musician, composer and singer (died 1915)
• March 24 – Eufrosyne Abrahamson, Swedish soprano (d. 1869)
• April 8 – Henry Brougham Farnie, librettist (died 1889)
• June 12 – Bernardine Hamaekers, Belgian opera singer (died 1912)
• June 29 – Thomas Philander Ryder, composer, organist, teacher, conductor, and organ builder (d. 1887)
• October 27 – Luigi Hugues, geographer, flautist and composer (d. 1913)
• October 28 – Eliakum Zunser, Yiddish songwriter (d. 1925)
• November 18 – W. S. Gilbert, dramatist, poet and librettist (d. 1911)
• November 23 – Wilhelm Barge, flautist (died 1925)
• December 2 – Giuseppe Donati, inventor of the ocarina (d. 1925)
• date unknown
  • Tamburi Ali Efendi, Turkish tanbur virtuoso and composer (d. 1902)
  • Marie Proksch, pianist (died 1900)

• January 3 – Friedrich Witt, cellist and composer (b. 1770)
• February 8 – Franziska Stading, opera singer (b. 1763)
• February 22 – John Clarke Whitfield, organist and composer (b. 1770)
• May 7 – Norbert Burgmüller, composer (b. 1810) (drowned)
• May 28 – Anton Reicha, composer (b. 1770)
• June 9 – Supply Belcher, composer, singer, and compiler of tune books (b. 1751)
• June 26 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of "La Marseillaise" (b. 1760)
• September 19 – Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer (born 1770)
• September 21 – John Stafford Smith, British composer, organist and musicologist (b. 1750)
• September 23
  • Maria Malibran, operatic soprano (b. 1808)
  • Andreas Razumovsky, patron of Ludwig van Beethoven (b. 1752)
• December 5 – Giuseppe Ciccimarra, operatic tenor (b. 1790)
• December 12 – Giuseppe Farinelli, composer (born 1769)
• December 26 – Hans Georg Nägeli, composer and music publisher (b. 1773)
• December 29 – Johann Baptist Schenk, Austrian composer and teacher (b. 1753)