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Overview of the events of 1826 in music
This article is about music-related events in
1826.
Events
Published popular music
- "The
Old Oaken Bucket" w. Samuel Woodworth m. George F. Kiallmark. Words written in 1817.
Classical music
Opera
Births
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January 18 –
Joseph-Henri Altès, composer (died 1895)
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February 1 –
Marie Carandini, opera singer (d. 1894)
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February 2 –
Louisa Langhans-Japha, composer (died 1910)
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February 16 –
Franz von Holstein, composer
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March 6 –
Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (d. 1894)
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March 14 – William Fisk Sherwin, composer
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March 23 –
Léon Minkus, composer (d. 1917)
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April 7 –
Johann Hermann Berens, composer (d. 1880)
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April 28 – Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
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June 1
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July 4 –
Stephen Foster, songwriter (d. 1864)
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July 8 –
Friedrich Chrysander, music historian (d. 1901)
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July 22 –
Julius Stockhausen, singer and music teacher (d. 1906)
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August 13 –
William Thomas Best, organist (d. 1897)
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August 28 –
Walter Cecil Macfarren, pianist and composer
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October 13 –
Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 1894)
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October 14 –
Georges Mathias, composer and pianist (d. 1910)
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October 16 – Piotr Studzinski, composer
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October 22 –
Guglielmo Quarenghi, cellist and composer (d. 1882)
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December 21 –
Ernst Pauer, composer (d. 1905)
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December 24 –
Ignacy Krzyżanowski, Polish composer (d. 1905)
- date unknown –
Edward Mack, songwriter (d. 1882)
Deaths
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January 17 –
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, composer (b. 1806)
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February 11 –
Charles Benjamin Incledon, singer (b. 1763)
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March 14 –
Julie Alix de la Fay, ballerina (b. 1748)
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March 29 –
Johann Heinrich Voss, lyricist (born 1751)
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April 3 –
Reginald Heber, hymn-writing bishop (b. 1783)
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April 13 –
Franz Danzi, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1763)
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May 6 –
Sophie Hagman, ballerina (b. 1758)
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May 24 –
Frederic Ernest Fesca, violinist and composer (b. 1789)
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May 27 –
Carl David Stegmann, singer, harpsichordist, conductor and composer (b. 1751)
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June 5 –
Carl Maria von Weber, composer (b. 1786)
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July 7 –
Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist and composer (b. 1768)
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July 11 – Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
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August 30 – Theodor Zwetler, composer
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September 28 –
Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, inventor of the first working metronome (b. 1780)
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October 9 –
Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (b. 1762)
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November 17 –
Caroline Frederikke Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1755)
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December 3 –
Elizabeth Sandunova, soprano
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December 10 –
Benedikt Emanuel Schack, singer and composer (b. 1758)
References