Famous Deaths in January 1868

  • Jan 3 Moritz Hauptmann, composer, dies at 75
  • Jan 7 William Batchelder Bradbury, American composer, dies at 51
  • Jan 14 Heinrich Schenker, Austrian musicologist (Urlinie) know for his Schenkerian analysis of music, dies at 66
  • Jan 22 Moritz Ganz, German composer and cellist, dies at 61
  • Jan 28 Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62