Events in Music
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 1 Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer
- Jan 9 Christiaan A Ulder, Curacao, composer (waltzes/tumbas)
- Jan 23 Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg, composer
- Feb 19 Adelina Patti, opera soprano (Lucio), born in Madrid, Spain
- Mar 5 William F Sudds, composer
- Mar 6 Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer
- Mar 8 Vilhelm Svedbom, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1904)
- Apr 4 Hans Richter, Austrian-Hungarian composer, born in Raab, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1916)
- Apr 8 Asger Hamerik, [Hammerich], composer
- Apr 14 Gustave Leon Huberti, composer
- Apr 15 Carl Eilhardt, composer
- May 2 Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1922)
- May 23 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer
- May 29 Emile Pessard, composer
- Jun 10 Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer
- Jun 15 Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (Bewitched One), born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1907)
- Jun 16 David Popper, composer
- Jun 16 Jan Malat, Czech composer (d. 1915)
- Jun 19 Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer
- Aug 4 Flor van Duyse, composer
- Aug 5 James Scott Skinner, composer
- Aug 26 George August Lumbye, composer
- Sep 4 Jan Levoslav Bella, composer
- Sep 21 David Emlyn Evans, composer
- Nov 2 Caryl Florio, composer, Pen-name of William James Rob John
- Nov 2 Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel, born in Pest (d. 1893)
- Nov 23 Josef Sucher, composer
- Nov 28 Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer
- Dec 13 George Stephanescu, composer
Deaths in Music
- Jan 7 Franz Schoberlechner, Austrian composer, dies at 45
- Jan 11 Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, poet and composer of the lyrics to "Star Spangled Banner" dies at 63
- Apr 14 Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austrian composer/violist, dies at 42
- May 12 Johann Georg Lickl, Austrian composer, dies at 74
- Jun 22 Gabriele Prota, composer, dies at 88
- Oct 10 Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer, dies at 75
- Nov 29 Marco Santucci, Italian composer, dies at 81