1826 in music
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Published popular music
- "The Old Oaken BucketOld Oaken BucketThe Old Oaken Bucket is the name of the trophy that is annually awarded to the winner of the Big Ten Conference college football game between Indiana University and Purdue University. It is one of the oldest football trophies in the nation...
" w. Samuel Woodworth m. George F. Kiallmark. Words written in 1817. - "Shenandoah (Across The Wide Missouri)Oh Shenandoah"Oh Shenandoah" is a traditional American folk song of uncertain origin, dating at least to the early 19th century...
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Opera
- John BarnettJohn BarnettJohn Barnett was an English composer and writer on music.-Life:Barnett was the eldest son of a Prussian Jew named Bernhard Beer, who changed his surname on settling in England as a jeweller. According to some he was a cousin of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer...
– Before Breakfast - Gaetano DonizettiGaetano DonizettiDomenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
– Alahor in GranataAlahor in GranataAlahor in Granata is an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to an anonymous Italian libretto after Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's text Gonzalve de Cordoue, ou Granade reconquise... - The Two Houses of Granada – Joseph Augustine Wade
- Carl Maria von WeberCarl Maria von WeberCarl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....
Oberon, King of the Fairies (first performed in London, libretto by James Robinson Planche).
Classical music
- Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
– Quartet #13 in B flat major (Opus 130), String Quartet No. 14 in C Sharp minorString Quartet No. 14 (Beethoven)The String Quartet No. 14 in C minor, Op. 131, by Ludwig van Beethoven was completed in 1826. About 40 minutes in length, it consists of seven movements to be played without a break, as follows:#Adagio ma non troppo e molto...
was completed. - Muzio ClementiMuzio ClementiMuzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...
– 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 SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
– Symphony no 9 (Great C major)
Births
- February 1 – Marie CarandiniMarie CarandiniMarie Carandini, née Burgess, was an English-born Australian opera singer.-Early life:Carandini was born in Brixton, London, the daughter of James and Martha Medwin Burgess and was brought by her parents to Van Diemen's Land in 1833...
, 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 FosterStephen FosterStephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
, songwriter (d. 1864) - July 8 – Friedrich ChrysanderFriedrich ChrysanderKarl Franz Friedrich Chrysander was a German music historian and critic, whose edition of the works of George Frideric Handel and authoritative writings on many other composers established him as a pioneer of 19th-century musicology.Born at Lübtheen, in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Chrysander was the son...
, music historian (d. 1901) - July 22 – Julius StockhausenJulius StockhausenJulius Christian Stockhausen was a German singer and singing master.- Life :Stockhausens' parents, Franz Stockhausen Sr...
, singer and music teacher (d. 1906) - August 13 – William Thomas BestWilliam Thomas BestWilliam Thomas Best was an English organist.The son of a solicitor, he was born at Carlisle. Having decided on a musical career, he became a pupil of the cathedral organist. He became particularly skilled in the interpretation of Bach's music...
, organist (d. 1897) - August 28 – Walter Cecil Macfarren
- October 13 – Johanna Jachmann-WagnerJohanna Jachmann-WagnerJohanna Jachmann-Wagner or Johanna Wagner was a mezzo-soprano singer, tragédienne in theatrical drama, and teacher of singing and theatrical performance who won great distinction in Europe during the third quarter of the 19th century...
, operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 1894) - October 14 – Georges MathiasGeorges MathiasGeorges Amédée Saint-Clair Mathias was a French composer, pianist and teacher.Mathias was born in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with François Bazin, Auguste Barbereau, Augustin Savard and Fromental Halévy, composition with Friedrich Kalkbrenner and piano with Frédéric Chopin. He was...
, composer and pianist (d. 1910) - October 16 – Piotr Studzinski, composer
- October 22 – Guglielmo QuarenghiGuglielmo QuarenghiGuglielmo Quarenghi was an Italian composer and cellist. From 1839 to 1842 he studied with Vincenzo Merighi at the Milan Conservatory. In 1850 he became principal cellist at La Scala, and in 1851 a professor at the conservatory. Along with Luigi Felice Rossi and Alberto Mazzucato, Quarenghi formed...
, cellist and composer (d. 1882) - December 21 – Ernst PauerErnst PauerErnst Pauer was an Austrian pianist, composer and educator.Pauer formed a direct link with great Viennese traditions: he was born in Vienna, his mother was a member of the famous Streicher family of piano makers, and for a time he was a piano pupil of Mozart's son, F. X. W. Mozart and a...
, composer (d. 1905) - date unknown – Edward MackEdward Mack (composer)Edward Mack , also known as E. Mack, was a German American composer.Mack composed the music for I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins , with the lyrics credited to "A Lady", and he composed the waltz That Young Man Across the Way .-External links:**...
, songwriter (d. 1882)
Deaths
- January 17 – Juan Crisóstomo ArriagaJuan Crisóstomo ArriagaJuan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola was a Spanish composer. He was nicknamed the "Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was also a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young...
, composer (b. 1806) - February 11 – Charles Benjamin Incledon, singer (b. 1763)
- March 14 – Julie Alix de la FayJulie Alix de la FayLéonne-Julie Alix de la Fay, also known as Julianne Bournonville and Madame Alix , was a Belgian ballet dancer and dance pedagogue, who was to play an important part in the development of the Royal Swedish Ballet...
, ballerina (b. 1748) - April 3 – Reginald HeberReginald HeberReginald Heber was the Church of England's Bishop of Calcutta who is now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer.-Life:Heber was born at Malpas in Cheshire...
, hymn-writing bishop (b. 1783) - April 13 – Franz DanziFranz DanziFranz Ignaz Danzi was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the noted Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi. Born in Schwetzingen, Franz Danzi worked in Mannheim, Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, where he died....
, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1763) - May 6 – Sophie HagmanSophie HagmanSophie Hagman née Anna Stina Hagman or Anna Sophia Hagman, , was a Swedish ballet dancer...
, ballerina (b. 1758) - May 24 – Frederic Ernest FescaFrederic Ernest FescaFrederic Ernest Fesca , German violinist and composer of instrumental music, was born at Magdeburg, where he received his early musical education....
, violinist and composer (b. 1789) - May 27 – Carl David StegmannCarl David StegmannCarl David Stegmann was a German tenor, harpsichordist, conductor, and composer.He was born in Staucha near Meissen, the son of Johann Ehrenfried Stegmann and Anna Christiana Bretzner, and married Karoline Johanna Eleanore Linz producing two sons and four daughters...
, singer, harpsichordist, conductor and composer (b. 1751) - June 5 – Carl Maria von WeberCarl Maria von WeberCarl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....
, 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 3 – Elizabeth SandunovaElizabeth SandunovaElizabeth S. Sandunova, , Russian stage actress and operatic mezzosoprano.She was an opera student of Giovanni Paisiello and Vicente Martín-i-Soler, and an actor student of Ivan Dmitrevsky at the theatre school of Saint Petersburg. She debuted in 1790...
soprano - December 10 – Benedikt Emanuel Schack, singer and composer (b. 1758)
- date unknown
- Caroline Frederikke MüllerCaroline Frederikke MüllerCaroline Frederikke Müller , also known as Caroline Walther, was a Danish and later naturalized Swedish singer , dancer and actor and principal of the theatre academy Dramatens elevskola...
, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1755) - Dietrich Nikolaus WinkelDietrich Nikolaus WinkelDietrich Nikolaus Winkel was the inventor of the first successful metronome. He also invented the componium, an automatic instrument that could make endless variations on a musical theme....
, inventor of the first working metronome (b. 1780) - Julie Alix de la FayJulie Alix de la FayLéonne-Julie Alix de la Fay, also known as Julianne Bournonville and Madame Alix , was a Belgian ballet dancer and dance pedagogue, who was to play an important part in the development of the Royal Swedish Ballet...
, ballet dancer
- Caroline Frederikke Müller