Editing 1936 in music (section)

==Events==
*[[January 4]] – ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'' magazine publishes its first music [[hit parade]]
*[[January 28]] – An article "[[Muddle Instead of Music]]" is published anonymously, almost certainly with [[Stalin]]'s approval, in the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] newspaper ''[[Pravda]]'', denouncing [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Dmitri Shostakovich's]] [[opera]] ''[[Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera)|Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District]]''.
*[[March 28]] – Inaugural concert of the {{ill|São Paulo City Symphony Orchestra|pt|Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo}}, conducted by [[Ernst Mehlich]]
*[[April 19]] – In [[Barcelona]], [[Alban Berg]]'s ''[[Violin Concerto (Berg)|Violin Concerto]]'' is given its premiere, by [[Louis Krasner]]
*[[May 2]] – ''[[Peter and the Wolf]]'' (Петя и волк, ''Petya i volk''), a Russian fairy tale of [[Sergei Prokofiev]]'s composition, is premiered at the Nezlobin Theater in Moscow, [[Soviet Union]], but attracts little attention at this time.<ref>{{cite book |last=Prokofiev |first=Sergei |title=Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences |date=2000|publisher=University Press of the Pacific|location=Honolulu, Hawaii|isbn=0-89875-149-7|editor-last=Shlifstein|editor-first=S.|page=89|translator-last=Prokofieva |translator-first=Rose}}</ref>
*May – Shostakovich completes composition of his [[Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 4]], but is persuaded to withdraw it from its planned premiere on December 11 and it is not first performed until [[1961 in music|1961]].
*[[December 24]] – Release of the film ''[[Natalka Poltavka (opera)|Natalka Poltavka]]'' in [[Ukraine]], the first filmed Russian opera.
*[[Nat King Cole]]'s recording career begins.
*[[Count Basie]] begins recording with his own band, which includes [[Lester Young]].
*[[José Iturbi]] becomes conductor of the [[Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra]] in the United States.
*[[John Serry Sr.]] begins extended appearances at the Star Light Roof in the [[Waldorf Astoria Hotel]] with the [[Lester Lanin Orchestra]] in New York City.