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 D minor (4th symphony) - Robert Schumann
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