Events in Music
Music Premiere
Jan 1 Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 2 Sydney Baynes, British conductor, arranger, band leader and composer (Destiny Waltz; Endure to Conquer), born in Sudbury, England (d. 1938)
- Jan 24 Stanislaw Lyudkevich, Ukranian composer, born in Jaroslaw, Habsburg Empire (now Poland) (d. 1979)
- Jan 27 Sven Holger Körling, Swedish organist, music teacher, and composer of children's songs, born in Ystad, Sweden (d. 1948)
Deaths in Music
- Jan 23 Adolf Jensen, German composer, dies of tuberculosis at 42
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