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Events in Music

  • Apr 20 Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens
  • Apr 28 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine" premieres in Paris

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Dec 17 Franz Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" premieres

Composer Franz Schubert
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Franz Schubert

Birthdays in Music

  • Jan 1 Giuseppe Ferrata, composer
  • Jan 3 Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (The Mikado), born in London, England (d. 1936)
  • Feb 5 Harvey Worthington Loomis, American composer (Lyrics of the Red Man), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1930)
  • Mar 2 Théophile "Théo" Ysaÿe, Belgian composer and pianist, born in Verviers, Belgium (d. 1918)
  • Mar 3 Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer
  • Apr 13 Heinrich Reinhardt, composer
  • May 5 Felicjan Szopski, composer
  • May 9 August de Boeck, composer
  • May 22 Enrique Morera, composer
  • Jun 7 Guido Gasperini, composer
  • Jun 9 Carl Nielsen, Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige)
  • Jun 9 Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, French composer
  • Jun 14 Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer
  • Jun 15 Paul Gilson, Belgian composer, born in Brussels (d. 1942)
  • Jun 21 Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
  • Jul 6 Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (d. 1950)
  • Jul 21 Robert Kahn, German composer, born in Mannheim (d. 1951)
  • Jul 29 Nicola Spinelli, composer
  • Aug 10 Alexander K Glazunov, composer (Chopiniana), born in St Petersburg, Russia
  • Sep 9 Edwin Lehare, composer
  • Sep 11 Alfred Hollins, British composer, born in Hull, Yorkshire
  • Oct 1 Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
  • Nov 12 Frans "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas), born (d. 1939)
  • Nov 26 Earl Ross Drake, composer
  • Dec 8 Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
  • Dec 13 Gustav Luders, composer

Deaths in Music

  • Apr 1 Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano, dies at 67
  • Apr 8 John Park, composer, dies at 61
  • Apr 26 Charles J Sax, Belgium musician and father of Adolphe Sax inventor of the saxophone, dies at 74
  • Jun 15 Jakob Zeugheer, composer, dies at 61
  • Jul 24 Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30
  • Aug 17 Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer, dies at 82
  • Aug 27 Jozef Nowakowski, composer, dies at 64
  • Sep 24 Frantiszek Soltyk, composer, dies at 81
  • Oct 8 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51
  • Oct 12 William Vincent Wallace, composer, dies at 53
  • Nov 6 Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer, dies at 51
  • Nov 23 Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer, dies at 41
  • Dec 6 Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56
  • Dec 18 Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer, dies at 70