Events in Music
- Jan 2 Melody Maker, British popular music magazine, publishes 1st issue
- Feb 2 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours
- Feb 8 Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin
- Mar 17 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premieres in NYC
- Apr 25 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" premieres in Milan
- May 12 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony premieres in Leningrad
- May 22 "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1
- Nov 8 George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay" premieres in NYC
- Nov 23 Noël Coward's "This Was a Man" premieres in NYC
- Nov 27 Béla Bartók's ballet "Miraculous Mandarin" premieres at the Cologne Opera, Germany, conducted by Eugen Szenkar
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- Jan 4 American songwriter Irving Berlin (37) weds heiress and writer Ellin Mackay (23) in a simple civil ceremony
- Mar 13 American folk and singer Maybelle Addington (17) weds music manager Ezra Carter (27)
Musicians Who Died in 1926
- Jan 8 Emile Paladilhe, composer, dies at 81
- Jan 15 Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 42
- Jan 23 Joseph Carl Breil, American composer (Les amours de la reine Élisabeth), dies at 55
- Feb 5 André Gedalge, French composer (le Petit Savoyard, Phoebé) and Mayor of Chessy, Seine-et-Marne, dies at 69
- Feb 26 Peter Lange-Muller, Danish composer and pianist, dies at 75
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