1826 in music

Events

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.

Opera

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

Classical music

*Ludwig van Beethoven - "Quartet #13 in B flat major" (Opus 130)
*Johannes Frederick Frøhlich - "Concertino for violin and orchestra in D major"
*Franz Schubert - Symphony no 9 (Great C major)

Births

*February 1 - Marie Carandini, opera singer (d. 1894)
*February 16 - Franz von Holstein, composer
*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
*October 13 - Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 1894)
*October 16 - Piotr Studzinski, composer
*October 22 - Guglielmo Quarenghi, cellist and composer (d. 1882)
*December 21 - Ernst Pauer, 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) (apoplexy)
*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
*October 9 - Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (b. 1762)
*December 10 - Benedikt Emanuel Schack, singer and composer (b. 1758)
*"date unknown"
**Caroline Frederikke Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1755)
**Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, inventor of the first working metronome (b. 1780)