# 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)