Birthdays in Music
- Feb 28 Gustave Kerker, German born American composer for Broadway musicals (The Belle of New York), born in Hertford, Germany (d. 1923)
Deaths in Music
- Feb 9 Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem, dies at 58
- Feb 14 Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56
- Feb 15 Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (Kamarinskaya; Ruslan and Ludmilla), dies at 53
- Feb 26 Ole Andreas Lindeman, Norwegian organist (Trondheim Vor Frelsers Kirke, 1799-57), composer, and educator, dies at 88