Events in Music
Music Premiere
Feb 5 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy, Verdi's first new opera for over 15 years

Giuseppe Verdi
Birthdays in Music
- Feb 2 Ernst Hanfstängl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975)
- Feb 3 Carlo Jachino, composer
- Feb 7 [James Hubert] Eubie Blake, American ragtime composer and pianist (Memories of You, I'm Just Wild About Harry), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1983)
- Feb 17 Leevi Antti Madetoja, composer
- Feb 20 David McKinley Williams, composer
- Feb 23 Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer