See also:
1825 in music,
other events of 1826,
1827 in music and the
list of 'years in music'.
Events
Popular Music
- "The Old Oaken Bucket" by Samuel Woodworth
- "Shenandoah (Across The Wide Missouri)" trad. US
Classical music
Births
- February 16 - Franz von Holstein, composer
- March 9 - Jean Joseph Bott, violinist and composer
- March 14 - William Fisk Sherwin, composer
- March 23 - Leon Minkus, composer
- April 7 - Johann Hermann Berens, composer
- April 28 - Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
- June 1 - Carl Bechstein, piano-maker
- June 1 - Hermann Zopff, composer
- July 4 - Stephen Foster, songwriter
- August 13 - William Thomas Best, composer
- August 27 - Hermann Kipper, music teacher and critic
- August 28 - Walter Cecil Macfarren
- October 16 - Piotr Studzinski, composer
- October 22 - Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer
- December 21 - Ernst Pauer, composer
- December 24 - Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer
- December 26 - Franz Coenen, composer
Deaths
- January 17 - Juan Crisostomo Arriaga y Balzola, composer
- March 11 - Gervais-Francois Couperin
- March 27 - Jakob Haibel, composer
- April 3 - Reginald Heber, hymn-writing bishop
- April 13 - Franz Danzi
- May 10 - Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer
- May 24 - Friedrich Fesca, composer
- May 25 - Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer
- June 5 - Carl Maria von Weber
- July 7 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist and composer
- July 11 - Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
- August 30 - Theodor Zwetler, composer
- November 17 - Louise Reichardt, composer
- November 22 - Pavel Lambert Masek, composer
- December 10 - Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer
