Events in Music
- Nov 25 Opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna)
Birthdays in Music
- Feb 2 Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer
- Feb 7 Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor
- Feb 15 Robert Fuchs, composer
- Feb 16 Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album polonaise)
- Mar 19 Constantin Dimitrescu, composer
- Mar 31 Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
- Apr 1 Gavriil Musicescu, composer
- Apr 9 Paolo Tosti, Italian composer, born in Ortona, Italy (d. 1916)
- Apr 9 Francis William Davenport, English composer, born in Wilderslowe, Derby (d. 1925)
- Apr 10 Charles Swinnerton Heap, English composer, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1900)
- May 13 Johannes Haarklou, composer
- May 25 Alphonse Goovaerts, composer
- Jun 24 Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer
- Jun 28 Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer
- Jul 5 Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer
- Jul 31 Ignatio Cervantes, composer
- Aug 1 Guido Papini, violinist/composer
- Aug 22 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, composer
- Sep 13 Charles Dupee Blake, composer
- Sep 16 Albert Ross Parsons, composer
- Oct 10 Gheorghe Dima, composer
- Oct 21 Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini)
- Nov 1 Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
- Nov 30 August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer
- Dec 1 Agathe Grondahl, composer
- Dec 16 Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer
Deaths in Music
- Jan 22 Georges-Julien Sieber, composer, dies at 71
- Mar 28 Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer, dies at 67
- Apr 23 Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64
- May 14 Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, German composer, dies at 41
- May 16 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
- Jul 19 Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75
- Oct 14 William Michael Rooke, composer, dies at 53
Felix Mendelssohn
Nov 4 Felix Mendelssohn [Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy], German composer and pianist (Great Scherzos), dies at 38
Felix Mendelssohn
- Dec 29 William Crotch, composer, dies at 72