1726 in music
The year 1726 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- October 26 – Women are allowed to be employed at the Kungliga Hovkapellet in Sweden.
- The Academy of Ancient Music (formerly the Academy of Vocal 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 (Ballet)
- Francesco Geminiani – 12 Concerti Grossi after Corelli's Violin Sonatas
- Benedetto Marcello – Estro poetico-armonico (expanded the 1724 version)
- Nicola Porpora – Imeneo in Atene (Serenade)
- 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 (died 1797)
- April 12 – Charles Burney, music historian (died 1814)
- August 26 – Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer (died 1784)
- September 1 – Johann Becker, organist and composer (died 1803)
- September 7 – François-André Danican Philidor, composer and chess player
- December 24 – Johann Hartmann, composer (died 1793)
Deaths
- January 2 – Domenico Zipoli, composer (born 1688)
- May 13 – Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, singer, composer and librettist (born 1659)
- June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, composer (born 1657)
- July 8 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, cellist and composer (born 1677)
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