On This Day

December 1836 in Music History

Deaths in Music

  • Dec 4 Daniel Read, American composer, dies at 79
  • Dec 12 Giuseppe Farinelli, Italian composer, dies at 67
  • Dec 26 Hans Georg Nägeli, Swiss composer, dies at 63
  • Dec 29 Johann Baptist Schenk, Austrian composer, dies at 83

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