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Birthdays in Music

  • May 5 Antonio Smareglia, Italian composer, born in Pula, Austria-Hungary (d. 1929)
  • May 13 Paul Klengel, composer
  • May 18 Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (Gisbertus of Aemstel, To My Fatherland), born in Amsterdam (d. 1924)

Deaths in Music

  • May 3 William Beale, composer, dies at 70
  • May 31 Vatroslav Lisinski, composer, dies at 34