1826 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1826.

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.

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130
  • String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, completed
• 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
• 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

• February 1 – Marie Carandini, opera singer (d. 1894)
• 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
• 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)
• 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)