This article is about music-related events in 1835.
Events
- January 2 â The Neue Leipziger Zeitschrift für Musik, edited by Robert Schumann, changes its name to Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
- January 24 â Postponed premiere Vincenzo Bellini's I puritani in Théâtre-Italien Paris
- January 25 â Hector Berlioz becomes resident music critic for the Journal des débats.
- May 4 â Samuel Sebastian Wesley, son of the composer Samuel Wesley, grandson of Charles Wesley, and organist of Hereford Cathedral, elopes with and marries Mary Anne Merewether, sister of the cathedral's dean.
- June 4 â Franz Liszt joins his mistress, Marie d'Agoult, in Basel, Switzerland.
- July 8 â Dan Emmett is discharged from the US Army and begins his career as a blackface banjoist and singer.
- October â Contralto Clorinda Corradi relocates to Havana, Cuba.
- November 9 â At a concert in Johann Sebastian Bach's home city of Leipzig, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Wieck and Louis Rakeman perform Bach's Concerto in D minor for three keyboards and orchestra.
- November 28 â 25-year-old Robert Schumann and 16-year-old Clara Wieck begin their romance.
- December 14 â The St James's Theatre, London, opens with an "operatic burletta", Agnes Sorel.
- Soprano Fanny Corri-Paltoni makes her last known stage appearance, at Alessandria in Italy.
- Gioachino Rossini completes Les soirées musicales which includes the patter song "La Danza".
- Music department added to the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Publications
Classical music
Opera
Births
- January 14 â Felix Otto Dessoff, conductor and composer (died 1892)
- January 23 â August Lanner, composer
- February 14 â Louis Gallet, librettist (died 1898)
- February 24 â John Henry Martin, band instrument manufacturer (died 1910)
- March 1 â Ebenezer Prout, composer (died 1909)
- March 15 â Eduard Strauss, composer (died 1916)
- March 24 â August Winding, composer (died 1899)
- March 30 â Bernhard Scholz, composer (died 1916)
- July 10 â Henryk Wieniawski, violinist and composer (died 1880)
- August 12 â Peter Piel, composer (died 1904)
- August 20 â Oscar Stoumon, music critic and composer (died 1900)
- September 28 â Jean Louis Gobbaerts, pianist (died 1886)
- October 7 â Felix Draeseke, composer (died 1913)
- October 9 â Camille Saint-Saëns, composer (died 1921)
- October 11 â Theodore Thomas, conductor (died 1905)
- November 25 â Joseph Glæser, organist and composer (died 1891)
- December 1 â Carl Johan Frydensberg, composer (died 1904)
- December 12 â Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer (died 1908)
- date unknown â Abu Khalil Qabbani, Syrian dramatist and composer (died 1902)
Deaths
- February 19 â Amzi Chapin, cabinetmaker, singing-school teacher and shape note composer
- April 23 â Joseph Antonio Emidy, violinist and composer (born 1775)
- April 25 â François Tourte, bowmaker (born 1747)
- May 9 â Sebastian Mayer, operatic bass (born 1773)
- August 3 â Wenzel Müller, composer (born 1767)
- August 10 â Claus Schall, violinist and composer (born 1757)
- September 23 â Vincenzo Bellini, composer (born 1801)
- October 21 â Muthuswami Dikshitar, youngest of the Carnatic music composer trinity (born 1775)
- November 19
- Thomas Linley the elder, musician and founder of a musical dynasty (born 1733)
- Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, banker and father of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn (born 1776)
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