1826 in music

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
 * String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
 * String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
 * 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
 * Giovanni Morandi – Raccolta di Suonate pei grand' Organi Moderni, Op. 21
 * Niccolò Paganini – 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
 * Symphony No. 9 in C major "Great"
 * String Quartet No. 15 in G major
 * Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major "Fantasie"

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).

Births

 * January 18 – Joseph-Henri Altès, composer (died 1895)
 * February 1 – Marie Carandini, opera singer (d. 1894)
 * February 2 – Louisa Langhans-Japha, composer (died 1910)
 * 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
 * Mathilda Ebeling, Swedish soprano (died 1851)
 * 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)
 * March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, lyricist (born 1751)
 * 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)