- 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, composer, dies at 61
- Jan 28 Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62