1726 in music

Events

• October 26 – Women are allowed to be employed at the Kungliga Hovkapellet in Sweden.
• The Academy of Ancient 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
• *O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe, BWV 34a
• *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
• *Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, BWV 129
• *Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170
• *Ihr Tore zu Zion, BWV 193
• *Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225
• *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
• Francesco Geminiani – 12 Concerti Grossi after Corelli's Violin Sonatas
• Benedetto Marcello – Estro poetico-armonico
• Nicola Porpora – Imeneo in Atene
• Domenico Scarlatti - Fugue du chat
• Giovanni Battista Somis – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Wünschet Jerusalem Glück, TWV 1:1726
• 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
• Giovanni Battista Martini – Azione teatrale
• Nicola Porpora – Meride e Selinunte
• Domenico Sarro – Valdemaro
• Georg Caspar Schürmann - Ludovicus Pius
• 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
• April 12 – Charles Burney, music historian
• August 26 – Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer
• September 1 – Johann Becker, organist and composer
• September 7 – François-André Danican Philidor, composer and chess player
• December 24 – Johann Hartmann, composer

  Deaths

• January 2 – Domenico Zipoli, composer
• May 13 – Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, singer, composer and librettist
• June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, composer
• July 8 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, cellist and composer