1726 in music

The year 1726 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * May 5 – French dancer Marie de Camargo made her debut at the Paris Opera Ballet in Les Caractères de la Danse.
 * October 26 – Women are allowed to be employed at the Kungliga Hovkapellet in Sweden.
 * The Academy of Ancient Music (formerly the Academy of Vocal Music) is founded in London.
 * George Frideric Handel becomes a British subject.
 * Johann Sebastian Bach copies and performs 18 church cantatas written by his cousin, Johann Ludwig Bach.

Classical music

 * William Babell – 6 Concertos in 7 Parts, Op. 3
 * Johann Ludwig Bach – Ja, mir hast du Arbeit gemacht, JLB 5
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13
 * Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 19
 * Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen, BWV 32
 * Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35
 * Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39
 * Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43
 * Ich geh' und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49
 * Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht, BWV 52
 * Siehe, ich will viel Fischer aussenden, BWV 88
 * Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 98
 * Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV 102
 * Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 1
 * Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV 228
 * 6 Partitas, BWV 825-830, Nos. 1 and 2
 * Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
 * Trio Sonatas, Op. 12
 * 6 Sonatas for 2 Bassoons, Op. 14
 * Antonio Caldara – Gioseffo che interpreta i sogni
 * François Couperin
 * L'Apothéose de Corelli
 * Les Nations
 * Henri Desmarets – Adorate eum omnes angeli ejus
 * Andre Cardinal Destouches – Les Stratagèmes de l'amour (Ballet)
 * Francesco Geminiani – 12 Concerti Grossi after Corelli's Violin Sonatas
 * Benedetto Marcello – Estro poetico-armonico (expanded the 1724 version)
 * Nicola Porpora – Imeneo in Atene (Serenade)
 * Domenico Scarlatti - Fugue du chat
 * Giovanni Battista Somis – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4
 * Antonio Vivaldi – La Sena festeggiante, RV 693
 * Jan Dismas Zelenka
 * Missa Paschalis, ZWV 7
 * Missa Nativitatis Domini, ZWV 8
 * Nisi Dominus, ZWV 92

Opera

 * Francisco Antonio de Almeida – La Giuditta
 * Tomaso Albinoni – La Statira
 * Pietro Auletta – La Carlotta
 * Francesco Ciampi – Lucio Vero
 * François Francoeur and François Rebel – Pirame et Thisbé
 * George Frideric Handel
 * Alessandro, HWV 21
 * Publio Cornelio Scipione, HWV 20
 * Johann Adolph Hasse – Astarto
 * Giovanni Battista Martini – Azione teatrale
 * Nicola Porpora – Meride e Selinunte
 * Domenico Sarro – Valdemaro
 * Georg Caspar Schürmann - Ludovicus Pius
 * Georg Philipp Telemann – Orpheus oder Die wunderbare Beständigkeit der Liebe, Premiered Mar. 9 in Hamburg
 * Leonardo Vinci
 * Didone abbandonata
 * L'Ernelinda
 * Gismondo, re di Polonia
 * Siroe, re di Persia
 * Antonio Vivaldi
 * Cunegonda
 * Dorilla in Tempe, RV 709
 * La fede tradita e vendicata, RV 712

Published popular music

 * "Sally in Our Alley" w.m. Henry Carey. The music played today is an earlier traditional tune.

Theoretical publications

 * Jakob Adlung – Musica mechanica organoedi
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau – Nouveau système de musique théorique

Births

 * March – Joseph Anton Steffan, harpsichordist and composer (died 1797)
 * April 12 – Charles Burney, music historian (died 1814)
 * August 26 – Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer (died 1784)
 * September 1 – Johann Becker, organist and composer (died 1803)
 * September 7 – François-André Danican Philidor, composer and chess player
 * December 24 – Johann Hartmann, composer (died 1793)

Deaths

 * January 2 – Domenico Zipoli, composer and Jesuit missionary (born 1688)
 * May 13 – Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, singer, composer and librettist (born 1659)
 * June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, composer (born 1657)
 * July 8 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, cellist and composer (born 1677)