On This Day

January 1890 in Music History

Birthdays in Music

  • Jan 22 Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist, born in Vratišinec, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (d. 1976)
  • Jan 29 Marguerite Canal, French conductor and composer (1st woman in France to conduct an orchestra), born in Toulouse, France (d. 1978)

Deaths in Music

  • Jan 7 Hans Matthison-Hansen, Danish composer and organist, dies at 82
  • Jan 14 Francesco D'Arcais, Italian composer, dies at 59
  • Jan 17 Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85
  • Jan 20 Franz Paul Lachner, German composer, dies at 86
  • Jan 30 Karl Merz, German-American composer (Brainard's Musical World), dies at 53

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