1826 In Music

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This article is about music-related events in 1826.

Events

* Chopin begins to study with Józef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory

Published popular music

* "The Old Oaken Bucket" w. Samuel Woodworth m. George F. Kiallmark. Words written in 1817.

Classical music

*Ludwig van Beethoven
** String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130
** String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
*Muzio Clementi – Complete ''Gradus ad Parnassum'' (100 pieces) appears for the first time, simultaneously in Paris, Leipzig and London on October 31.
* Johannes Frederik Frøhlich – Concertino for violin and orchestra in D major
* Franz Liszt – Initial version of the '' Étude en douze exercices''
* Felix Mendelssohn – Overture "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in E major for orchestra, Op. 21
* Giovanni Morandi – ''Raccolta di Suonate pei grand' Organi Moderni'', Op. 21
*Niccolò Paganini – Violin Concerto No. 2
*Ferdinand Ries
**Piano Concerto No.8, Op.151
**Variationen über eine portugiesische Hymne für Pianoforte und Flöte in A major, Op. 152
**3 Flute Quartets, WoO 35, No. 1 in D minor
*Franz Schubert
** Symphony No. 9 in C major "Great"
** String Quartet No. 15 in G major
** Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major "Fantasie"

Opera

* John Barnett – ''Before Breakfast''
* Vincenzo Bellini – ''Bianca e Fernando''
* Gaetano Donizetti – '' Alahor in Granata''
* Joseph Augustine Wade – ''The Two Houses of Granada''
*Carl Maria von Weber – '' Oberon, King of the Fairies'' (first performed in London, libretto by James Robinson Planche).

Births

*January 18 – Joseph-Henri Altès, composer (died 1895)
* February 1 – Marie Carandini, opera singer (d. 1894)
* February 2 – Louisa Langhans-Japha, composer (died 1910)
*February 16 – Franz von Holstein, composer
*March 6 – Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (d. 1894)
* 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, pianist and composer
*October 13 – Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 1894)
*October 14 – Georges Mathias, composer and pianist (d. 1910)
*October 16 – Piotr Studzinski, composer
** Mathilda Ebeling, Swedish soprano (died 1851)
*October 22 – Guglielmo Quarenghi, cellist and composer (d. 1882)
*December 21 – Ernst Pauer, composer (d. 1905)
*December 24 – Ignacy Krzyżanowski, Polish 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)
*March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, lyricist (born 1751)
*April 3 – Reginald Heber, hymn-writing bishop (b. 1783)
* 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
* September 28 – Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, inventor of the first working metronome (b. 1780)
*October 9 – Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (b. 1762)
*November 17 – Caroline Frederikke Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1755)
*December 3 – Elizabeth Sandunova soprano
*December 10 – Benedikt Emanuel Schack, singer and composer (b. 1758)

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