1835 in music

Events

• January 2 – The Neue Leipziger Zeitschrift für Musik, edited by Robert Schumann, changes its name to Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
• January 25 – Hector Berlioz becomes resident music critic for the Journal des Débats.
• May 4 – 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 – Franz Liszt joins his mistress, Marie d'Agoult, in Basel, Switzerland.
• July 8 – Dan Emmett is discharged from the US Army and begins his career as a blackface banjoist and singer.
• October – Contralto Clorinda Corradi relocates to Havana, Cuba.
• November 9 – 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 – 25-year-old Robert Schumann and 16-year-old Clara Wieck begin their romance.
• December 14 – 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.
• Rossini completes 'Les soirées musicales' which includes La Danza

  Publications

• Luigi Cherubini – Cours de contrepoint et de fugue

  Classical music

• Otto Nicolai – Gran marcia funebre
• Robert Schumann - Carnaval, Op. 9
• Giuseppe Verdi – Messa di Gloria
• Samuel Sebastian Wesley – Larghetto for Organ in F minor

  Opera

• Princess Amalie of Saxony – La casa disabitata
• Daniel Auber – Le cheval de bronze
• Vincenzo Bellini – I puritani
• Gaetano Donizetti
• *Lucia di Lammermoor
• *Maria Stuarda
• Fromental Halévy
• *L'éclair
• *La Juive
• Giuseppe Persiani – Ines de Castro
• Mikhail Zagoskin – Askold's Grave

  Births

• January 14 – Felix Otto Dessoff, conductor and composer
• January 23 – August Lanner, composer
• February 24 – John Henry Martin, band instrument manufacturer
• March 15 – Eduard Strauss, composer
• March 24 – August Winding, composer
• July 10 – Henryk Wieniawski, violinist and composer
• August 20 – Oscar Stoumon, music critic and composer
• October 7 – Felix Draeseke, composer
• October 9 – Camille Saint-Saëns, composer
• October 11 – Theodore Thomas, conductor
• November 25 – Joseph Glæser, organist and composer
• December 1 – Carl Johan Frydensberg, composer
• date unknown – Abu Khalil Qabbani, Syrian dramatist and composer

  Deaths

• February 19 – Amzi Chapin, cabinetmaker, singing-school teacher and shapenote composer
• April 23 – Joseph Antonio Emidy, violinist and composer
• April 25 – François Tourte, bowmaker
• May 9 – Sebastian Mayer, operatic bass
• August 3 – Wenzel Müller, composer
• August 10 – Claus Schall, violinist and composer
• September 23 – Vincenzo Bellini, composer
• October 21 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, youngest of the Carnatic Music composer trinity
• November 19
• *Thomas Linley the elder, musician and founder of a musical dynasty
• *Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, banker and father of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn