Birthdays in Music
- Apr 6 Mateusz Glinski, composer
- Apr 10 Victor de Sabata, Italian conductor and composer (Il Macigno), born in Trieste, Italy (d. 1967)
- Apr 12 Johnny Dodds, American early jazz clarinetist, born in Waveland, Mississippi (d. 1940)
- Apr 19 Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France (d. 1983)
- Apr 21 Jaroslav Kvapil, Czech composer, born in Fryšták, Czech Republic (d. 1959)
- Apr 22 Nikolai Obukhov, Russian composer, born in Ol'shanka village, Kursk Province, Russian Empire (d. 1954)
- Apr 28 Georges Antoine, Belgian composer, born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1918)
- Apr 28 John Jacob Niles, American composer, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1980)
Deaths in Music
- Apr 22 Édouard Lalo, French composer (Symphonie Espagnole; Le roi d'Ys), dies at 69