title: 1826 in music
text: # 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. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130
     * String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
  * 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
  * 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)
  