1726 in music

The year 1726 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• October 26 - Women are allowed to be employed at the Kungliga Hovkapellet in Sweden.
• The Academy of Ancient Music (formerly the Academy of Vocal Music) is founded in London.
• George Frideric Handel becomes a British subject.
• Johann Sebastian Bach copies and performs 18 church cantatas written by his cousin, Johann Ludwig Bach.

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach - cantata Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35

Opera

• Francisco Antonio de Almeida - La Giuditta
• Tomaso Albinoni – La Statira
• Pietro Auletta – La Carlotta
• Francesco Ciampi – Lucio Vero
• Giovanni Battista Martini – Azione teatrale
• Nicola Porpora – Imeneo in Atene
• Antonio Vivaldi – Cunegonda

Published popular music

• "Sally in Our Alley" w.m. Henry Carey. The music played today is an earlier traditional tune.

Births

• March - Joseph Anton Steffan, harpsichordist and composer (died 1797)
• April 12 – Charles Burney, music historian (died 1814)
• August 26 - Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer (died 1784)
• September 1 - Johann Becker, organist and composer (died 1803)
• September 7 – François-André Danican Philidor, composer and chess player
• December 24 – Johann Hartmann, composer (died 1793)

Deaths

• January 2 – Domenico Zipoli, composer (born 1688)
• May 13 - Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, singer, composer and librettist (born 1659)
• June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, composer (born 1657)
• July 8 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, cellist and composer (born 1677)