Events in Music
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 3 Henry Eichheim, composer
- Jan 4 Percy Pitt, English composer (BBC), born in London (d. 1932)
- Jan 13 Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/conductor (St Moniuszko)
- Jan 20 Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer
- Jan 22 Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer
- Feb 12 Marie Lloyd, English music-hall performer (d. 1922)
- Feb 13 Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
- Feb 27 Louis Coerne, composer
- Mar 6 Oscar Straus, composer (Ein Walzertraum), born in Vienna, Austria
- Mar 10 Alfred Kastner, composer
- Apr 7 Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron
- Apr 20 Simeon Roncal, Bolivian composer, born in Sucre, Bolivia (d. 1953)
- Apr 28 Hermann Suter, Swiss composer, born in Kaiserstuhl, Aargau, Switzerland (d. 1926)
- Apr 30 Franz Lehar, operetta composer (Naughty Marietta)
- May 14 Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer
- Jun 29 Joseph Carl Breil, American composer (Les amours de la reine Élisabeth), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1926)
- Jul 15 Ernest Walker, composer
- Jul 18 Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor and composer, born in Kybartai, Lithuania (d. 1935)
- Aug 4 Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (Roamin' in the Gloamin), born in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1950)
- Sep 1 Timotei Popovici, composer
- Sep 8 Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer
- Sep 22 Arthur Pryor, American band composer and trombone player, born in Saint Joseph, Missouri (d. 1942)
- Sep 23 John Lomax, Miss, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist
- Oct 8 Louis Vierne, French organist and composer, born in Poitiers, France (d. 1937)
- Nov 16 Alfred Hill, New Zealand Australian composer (Hinemoa), born in Melbourne (d. 1960)
- Nov 19 Vicente Lleo, composer
- Nov 22 Howard Brockway, composer
- Nov 30 Cecil Forsyth, composer
- Dec 2 Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor
- Dec 5 Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (d. 1949)
- Dec 24 Rosario Scalero, composer
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Aug 25 German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland
Richard Wagner
Deaths in Music
- Jan 7 Karl Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
- Jan 11 Adolf Ganz, German composer, dies at 73
- Jan 26 Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67
- Feb 11 Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer, dies at 66
- Mar 9 Theodore Labarre, composer, dies at 65
- Mar 10 Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer, dies at 75
- Mar 18 Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48
- Apr 8 Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer, dies at 68
- Apr 19 Camille Marie Stamaty, composer, dies at 59
- Apr 19 William Henry Havergal, composer, dies at 77
- May 14 Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer, dies at 69
- May 30 Gustave Vogt, French composer, dies at 89
- Jun 8 Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer, dies at 78
- Jun 9 Erik Drake, Swedish composer (Swedish Academy of Music), dies at 82
- Jul 22 Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42
- Jul 25 Pierre Dupont, French songwriter, dies at 49
- Aug 16 Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80
- Sep 2 Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer, dies at 48
- Oct 20 Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62
- Oct 31 Mihaly Mosonyi, composer, dies at 55
- Dec 16 Stanislaw Duniecki, composer, dies at 31
- Dec 17 Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75
- Dec 28 Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov, Russian composer, dies at 72