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The year 1726 in music involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Musical theater 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• George Frideric Handel becomes a British subject.
• Johann Sebastian Bach copies and performs 18 church cantatas written by his cousin, Johann Ludwig Bach.

[edit] Classical music

[edit] Opera

• Tomaso Albinoni - La Statira
• Pietro Auletta - La Carlotta
• Francesco Ciampi - Lucio Vero
• Giovanni Battista Martini - Azione teatrale
• Nicola Porpora - Imeneo in Atene
• Antonio Vivaldi - Cunegonda

[edit] Musical theater

[edit] Births

• April 12 - Charles Burney, music historian (died 1814)
• September 7 - François-André Danican Philidor, composer and chess player

[edit] Deaths

• January 2 - Domenico Zipoli, composer (born 1688)
• June 18 - Michel Richard Delalande, composer (born 1657)