1826 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Published Popular Music

• "The Old Oaken Bucket" w. Samuel Woodworth m. George F. Kiallmark. Words written in 1817.
• "Shenandoah (Across The Wide Missouri)" traditional, US.

Opera

• John Barnett - Before Breakfast
• Gaetano Donizetti - Alahor in Granata
• The Two Houses of Granada - Joseph Augustine Wade
• Carl Maria von Weber Oberon, King of the Fairies (first performed in London, libretto by James Robinson Planche).

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Quartet #13 in B flat major (Opus 130), String Quartet No. 14 in C Sharp minor was completed.
• Muzio Clementi - Complete Gradus ad Parnassum (100 pieces) appears for the first time, simultaneously in Paris, Leipzig and London on October 31.
• Johannes Frederick Frøhlich - Concertino for violin and orchestra in D major
• Franz Schubert - Symphony no 9 (Great C major)

Births

• February 1 - Marie Carandini, opera singer (d. 1894)
• February 16 - Franz von Holstein, composer
• March 14 - William Fisk Sherwin, composer
• March 23 - Léon Minkus, composer (d. 1917)
• April 7 - Johann Hermann Berens, composer (d. 1880)
• April 28 - Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
• June 1
  • Carl Bechstein, piano-maker (d. 1900)
  • Hermann Zopff, composer
• July 4 - Stephen Foster, songwriter (d. 1864)
• July 8 - Friedrich Chrysander, music historian (d. 1901)
• July 22 - Julius Stockhausen, singer and music teacher (d. 1906)
• August 13 - William Thomas Best, organist (d. 1897)
• August 28 - Walter Cecil Macfarren
• October 13 - Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 1894)
• October 14 - Georges Mathias, composer and pianist (d. 1910)
• October 16 - Piotr Studzinski, composer
• October 22 - Guglielmo Quarenghi, cellist and composer (d. 1882)
• December 21 - Ernst Pauer, composer (d. 1905)
• date unknown - Edward Mack, songwriter (d. 1882)

Deaths

• January 17 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, composer (b. 1806)
• February 11 - Charles Benjamin Incledon, singer (b. 1763)
• March 14 - Julie Alix de la Fay, ballerina (b. 1748)
• April 3 - Reginald Heber, hymn-writing bishop (b. 1783) (apoplexy)
• April 13 - Franz Danzi, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1763)
• May 6 - Sophie Hagman, ballerina (b. 1758)
• May 24 - Frederic Ernest Fesca, violinist and composer (b. 1789)
• May 27 - Carl David Stegmann, singer, harpsichordist, conductor and composer (b. 1751)
• June 5 - Carl Maria von Weber, composer (b. 1786)
• July 7 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist and composer (b. 1768)
• July 11 - Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
• August 30 - Theodor Zwetler, composer
• October 9 - Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (b. 1762)
• December 3 - Elizabeth Sandunova soprano
• December 10 - Benedikt Emanuel Schack, singer and composer (b. 1758)
• date unknown
  • Caroline Frederikke Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1755)
  • Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, inventor of the first working metronome (b. 1780)
  • Julie Alix de la Fay, ballet dancer