Birthdays in Music
- Feb 1 Emil Hartmann, Danish organist and composer (Towards The Light), born in Copenhagen (d. 1898)
- Feb 16 Benjamin Edward Woolf, Dutch composer
- Feb 21 Clement Léo Delibes, French romantic composer (Coppélia; Sylvia; Le roi l'a dit; Lakmé), born in Saint-Germain-du-Val, France (d. 1891)
- Feb 22 Eduard Wachmann, composer
Deaths in Music
- Feb 22 John Clarke-Whitfeld, English organist and composer, dies at 65