1846 in music
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Events
- Adolphe Sax invents the "saxophone"
Published popular music
- "When The Swallows Homeward Fly" w.m. Franz Abt
Oratorio
- Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn
- Ruth by César Auguste Franck
Classical music
- Symphony in C major (2nd symphony) – Robert Schumann
Opera
- La Damnation de Faust – Hector Berlioz
- Der Waffenschmied – Albert Lortzing
- Orazi e Curiazi – Saverio Mercadante
Births
- January 2 – Sandor Erkel
- February 24 – Luigi Denza
- February 26 – George C. Stebbins
- November 2 – Antonio Pena y Goni
Deaths
- August 7 – Johann Heinrich Christian Rinck
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