# 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
* September 12 - Richard Pohl, German music critic
* 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)