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
- 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 Frøhlich 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
- Niccolò Paganini â 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
Opera
- John Barnett â Before Breakfast
- Vincenzo Bellini â Bianca e Fernando
- Gaetano Donizetti â Alahor in Granata
- Joseph Augustine Wade â The Two Houses of Granada
- Carl Maria von Weber â Oberon, King of the Fairies (first performed in London, libretto by James Robinson Planche).
Births
- January 18 â Joseph-Henri Altès, 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
- March 23 â Léon Minkus, composer (d. 1917)
- 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 Krzyżanowski, Polish composer (d. 1905)
- date unknown â Edward Mack, songwriter (d. 1882)
Deaths
- January 17 â Juan Crisóstomo 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 Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1755)
- December 3 â Elizabeth Sandunova, soprano
- December 10 â Benedikt Emanuel Schack, singer and composer (b. 1758)