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1826 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1826.

Contents

  • "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
  • 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).

    • 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"

    • 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)

    • References

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