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Overview of the events of 1826 in music
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This article is about
music-related events in
1826
.
Contents
Events
Published popular music
Classical music
Opera
Births
Deaths
References
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)
[
1
]
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)
References
↑
"Anna Stina (Sophie) Hagman"
(in Swedish).
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon
. Retrieved
20 February
2024
.
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