Events in Music
- Feb 12 Caesar Franck's Symphony in D premieres
- May 18 Jules Massenet's opera "Esclarmonde" premieres in Paris
- Nov 20 Gustav Mahler's 1st Symphony
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 1 Alexander Smallens, conductor, born in St Petersburg, Russia
- Jan 1 Tadeusz Jarecki, composer
- Jan 14 Vincenzo Davico, Italian composer, born in Monaco (d. 1969)
- Jan 19 Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Davos Switzerland, painter, sculptor and dancer
- Jan 25 Vladimir Scherbachov, Russian composer & professor (Blokovskaya, Thunderstorm), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1952)
- Jan 29 Francisco Santiago, composer
- Jan 29 Rudolf Mauersberger, composer
- Feb 5 Ioan Dumitru Chirescu, composer
- Feb 11 Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer
- Feb 20 Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer
- Mar 3 Fritz Behrend, composer
- Mar 26 Václav Kaprál, Czech composer, pianist, and pedagogue, born in Určice (d. 1947)
- Apr 3 Grigoras Dinicu, Romanian violin virtuoso and composer, born in Bucharest (d. 1949)
- Apr 8 Adrian Boult, Chester England, conductor/composer (BBC Sym Orchestra)
- Apr 9 Efrem Zimbalist, Russian composer and violinist, born in Rostov on Don, Russia (d. 1985)
- Apr 11 Nick LaRocca, American jazz coronetist and composer (Tiger Rag), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1961)
- Apr 30 Acario Cotapos, Chilean composer, born in Valdivia, Chile (d. 1969)
- Apr 30 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, Danish composer (Symphony Number 2, Hellas), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1947)
- May 20 Felix Arndt, American composer, born in NYC, New York (d. 1918)
- May 23 José Padilla, Almería, Spanish composer and pianist (La Violetera - City Lights, Ça c'est Paris - Moulin Rouge)
- May 25 Gilardo Gilardi, Argentine composer, pianist and conductor (La leyenda del urutaú, Réquiem, Misa de Gloria), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1963)
- May 25 Sverre Jordan, Norwegian composer, orchestra conductor and pianist (Norwegian Rapsody), born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1972)
- Jun 25 Ethel Glenn Hier, American composer, born in Madisonville, Ohio (d. 1971)
- Jul 22 Frederick Preston Search, composer
- Aug 10 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, English composer, born in Great Baddow, Essex (d. 1960)
- Aug 20 Witold Friemann, Polish composer, born in Konin, Poland (d. 1977)
- Sep 10 Vilem Petrzelka, composer
- Sep 28 D P "Dad" Carter, American gospel singer (Chuck Wagon Gang), born near Columbia, Kentucky (d. 1963)
- Oct 19 Uncle Art Satherley, British-American record producer (1968 Academy of Country Music Award), born in Bristol, England (d. 1986)
- Nov 4 Alton Adams, American composer (1st black bandmaster in the United States Navy), born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (d. 1987)
- Nov 16 Luis Cluzeau-Mortet, composer
- Nov 24 Albert J Sylvester, England, ballroom dancer (Alex Moor Award-1977)
- Dec 7 Heathcote Dicken Statham, English composer (d. 1973)
- Dec 12 Václav Štěpán, Czech pianist and composer, born in Pečky, Austria-Hungary (d. 1944)
- Dec 20 Božidar Širola, Croatian composer, born in Žakanje, Croatia
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
May 31 Pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (38) weds baroness Helena Maria Rosen
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Wedding of Interest
Sep 6 Explorer Fridtjof Nansen (27) weds mezzosoprano singer Eva Nansen (30)
Fridtjof Nansen
Deaths in Music
- Jan 10 Martin Andreas Udbye, composer, dies at 68
- Jan 14 Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
- Feb 1 Joseph Gungl, composer, dies at 78
- Feb 26 Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (b. 1838)
- Mar 3 Edward Sydney Smith, composer, dies at 49
- Mar 18 William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66
- Mar 27 Moritz Fürstenau, German composer, dies at 64
- Jun 27 Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies at 48
- Jun 27 Whitney Eugene Thayer, American composer, dies at 50
- Jun 30 Eugenio Terziani, Italian composer, dies at 64
- Jul 4 Auguste Mermet, composer, dies at 79
- Jul 7 Giovanni Bottesini, Italian Romantic composer, conductor and a double bass virtuoso, dies at 67
- Jul 13 Carli Zoeller, German composer, dies at 49
- Aug 4 Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, German composer, dies at 75
- Aug 17 Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor, dies at 42
- Oct 3 Karel Miry, Belgian composer (De Vlaamse Leeuw), dies at 66
- Oct 10 Adolf von Henselt, German composer, dies at 75
- Oct 22 Olivier Metra, composer, dies at 59
- Oct 24 Loisa Puget, French composer, dies at 79
- Dec 3 Baltasar Saldoni, composer, dies at 82