Birthdays in Music
- Feb 3 Sidney Clopton Lanier, American composer/poet (Hall of Fame)
- Feb 22 Carl Rosa, founder (Rosa opera company), born in Hamburg, Germany
- Feb 24 Arrigo Boito, Itlaian opera composer (Mefistofele), and librettist (Verdi's "Falstaff"; mention Ponchielli's "La Gioconda"), born in Padua, Italy (d. 1918)
Deaths in Music
- Feb 21 Wojciech Żywny, Polish pianist, composer and Chopin's first piano teacher, dies at 85