- 1826 in music
Events
Published Popular Music
* "The
Old Oaken Bucket " w. Samuel Woodworth m. George F. Kiallmark. Words written in 1817.
* "Shenandoah (Across The Wide Missouri)" traditional, US.Opera *
John Barnett - "Before Breakfast"
*Gaetano Donizetti - "Alahor in Granata "
* "The Two Houses of Granada" -Joseph Augustine Wade
*Carl Maria von Weber "Oberon, King of the Fairies " (first performed in London, libretto byJames Robinson Planche ).Classical music
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Ludwig van Beethoven - "Quartet #13 in B flat major" (Opus 130)
*Johannes Frederick Frøhlich - "Concertino for violin and orchestra in D major"
*Franz Schubert - Symphony no 9 (Great C major)Births
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February 1 -Marie Carandini , 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 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
*October 13 -Johanna Jachmann-Wagner , operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 1894)
*October 16 -Piotr Studzinski , composer
*October 22 -Guglielmo Quarenghi , cellist and composer (d. 1882)
*December 21 -Ernst Pauer , composer (d. 1905)
*"date unknown" - Edward Mack, songwriter (d. 1882)Deaths
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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)
*April 3 -Reginald Heber , hymn-writing bishop (b. 1783) (apoplexy)
*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
*October 9 - Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (b. 1762)
*December 10 -Benedikt Emanuel Schack , singer and composer (b. 1758)
*"date unknown"
**Caroline Frederikke Müller , operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1755)
**Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel , inventor of the first working metronome (b. 1780)
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