1826 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1826.

Events

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

Ludwig van Beethoven
- String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
- String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
Muzio Clementi â Complete Gradus ad Parnassum (100 pieces) appears for the first time, simultaneously in Paris, Leipzig and London on October 31.
Johannes Frederik FrÃ¸hlich â Concertino for violin and orchestra in D major
Franz Liszt â Initial version of the Ãtude en douze exercices
Felix Mendelssohn â Overture "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in E major for orchestra, Op. 21
Giovanni Morandi â Raccolta di Suonate pei grand' Organi Moderni, Op. 21
NiccolÃ² Paganini â Violin Concerto No. 2
Ferdinand Ries
- Piano Concerto No.8, Op.151
- Variationen Ã¼ber eine portugiesische Hymne fÃ¼r Pianoforte und FlÃ¶te in A major, Op. 152
- 3 Flute Quartets, WoO 35, No. 1 in D minor
Franz Schubert

January 18 â Joseph-Henri AltÃ¨s, composer (died 1895)
February 1 â Marie Carandini, opera singer (d. 1894)
February 2 â Louisa Langhans-Japha, composer (died 1910)
February 16 â Franz von Holstein, composer
March 6 â Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (d. 1894)
March 14 â William Fisk Sherwin, composer
April 7 â Johann Hermann Berens, composer (d. 1880)
April 28 â Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
June 1
- Carl Bechstein, piano-maker (d. 1900)
- Hermann Zopff, composer
July 4 â Stephen Foster, songwriter (d. 1864)
July 8 â Friedrich Chrysander, music historian (d. 1901)
July 22 â Julius Stockhausen, singer and music teacher (d. 1906)
August 13 â William Thomas Best, organist (d. 1897)
August 28 â Walter Cecil Macfarren, pianist and composer
September 12 - Richard Pohl, German music critic
October 13 â Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 1894)
October 14 â Georges Mathias, composer and pianist (d. 1910)
October 16 â Piotr Studzinski, composer
- Mathilda Ebeling, Swedish soprano (died 1851)
October 22 â Guglielmo Quarenghi, cellist and composer (d. 1882)
December 21 â Ernst Pauer, composer (d. 1905)
December 24 â Ignacy KrzyÅ¼anowski, Polish composer (d. 1905)
date unknown â Edward Mack, songwriter (d. 1882)

January 17 â Juan CrisÃ³stomo Arriaga, composer (b. 1806)
February 11 â Charles Benjamin Incledon, singer (b. 1763)
March 14 â Julie Alix de la Fay, ballerina (b. 1748)
March 29 â Johann Heinrich Voss, lyricist (born 1751)
April 3 â Reginald Heber, hymn-writing bishop (b. 1783)
April 13 â Franz Danzi, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1763)
May 6 â Sophie Hagman, ballerina (b. 1758)^[1]
May 24 â Frederic Ernest Fesca, violinist and composer (b. 1789)
May 27 â Carl David Stegmann, singer, harpsichordist, conductor and composer (b. 1751)
June 5 â Carl Maria von Weber, composer (b. 1786)
July 7 â Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist and composer (b. 1768)
July 11 â Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
August 30 â Theodor Zwetler, composer
September 28 â Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, inventor of the first working metronome (b. 1780)
October 9 â Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (b. 1762)
November 17 â Caroline Frederikke MÃ¼ller, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1755)
December 3 â Elizabeth Sandunova, soprano
December 10 â Benedikt Emanuel Schack, singer and composer (b. 1758)