Editing 1926 in music (section)

==Events==
[[Image:ParamountLabelBLJefferson.jpg|thumb|right|Blind Lemon Jefferson record]]
* January – [[Blind Lemon Jefferson]] makes his first recordings.
* [[April 9]] – [[Leopold Stokowski]] conducts the world premiere of [[Edgar Varèse]]'s ''[[Amériques]]'', with the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]].
* [[May 12]] – [[Dmitri Shostakovich]]'s [[Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 1]] premières in Leningrad. The composer is 19 years old.
* c. May – Socialist English composer [[Rutland Boughton]] stages a performance of his Nativity opera ''Bethlehem'' ([[1915 in music|1915]]) at [[Church House, Westminster]], in a staging explicitly referencing the [[1926 United Kingdom general strike]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Hurd|authorlink=Michael Hurd (composer)|first=Michael|year=1983|title=Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), The Immortal Hour|publisher=[[Hyperion Records|Hyperion]]|url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDD22040|accessdate=2014-09-01}}</ref>
* [[June 26]] – [[Václav Talich]] conducts the world première of [[Leoš Janáček]]'s ''[[Sinfonietta (Janáček)|Sinfonietta]]'' in [[Prague]]
* [[October 21]] – [[Carl Nielsen]]'s [[Flute Concerto (Nielsen)|Flute Concerto]] is given its world première in [[Paris]]
* [[October 28]] – [[Bing Crosby]] cuts his first record, a recording of "I've Got the Girl".
* [[November 4]] – [[Wanda Landowska]] gives the world première of [[Manuel de Falla]]'s ''[[Harpsichord Concerto (De Falla)|Harpsichord Concerto]]'' in [[Barcelona]]
* [[November 27]] – [[Béla Bartók]]'s ''[[The Miraculous Mandarin]]'' is premièred in [[Cologne]]. Further performances are prohibited on moral grounds by the city's mayor, [[Konrad Adenauer]].<ref>{{citation|first=Ivan|last=Hewett|authorlink=Ivan Hewett|chapter=Rolling with the Punches|title=BBC Proms 2022|pages=20–4}}</ref>
* [[December 18]] – The [[Estonian National Symphony Orchestra]] gives its first concert.
* [[December 26]] – World première of [[Jean Sibelius|Sibelius]]'s [[tone poem]] ''[[Tapiola (Sibelius)|Tapiola]]'' by [[Walter Damrosch]] and the [[New York Philharmonic]], the last substantial composition to be made public by the composer for the remaining 30 years of his life.
* First recordings by [[Jelly Roll Morton]] & His Red Hot Peppers.
* Opening of the [[Salzburger Festspielhaus]].
* [[Virgilio Savona]] begins studying music.
* The Société de Musique de Chambre de Genève is founded by [[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]].
* The [[National Conservatoire (Greece)|National Conservatoire]] is founded in Athens by composer [[Manolis Kalomiris]] and others.
* Operatic baritone [[Leslie Rands]] marries his D'Oyly Carte co-star [[Marjorie Eyre]].
* American all-girl harmony singing trio [[Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce]] tour briefly with another female music group, Jerry and her Baby Grands (Geraldine Vallerie).
* [[John Serry Sr.]] is accepted for studies at the noted [[Pietro Deiro]] accordion studio in [[Greenwich Village]] starting his education as an instrumentalist at the age of 11.