Events in Music
- Apr 28 1st performance of Antonin Dvorák's overture "Carneval"
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, [Les Six], Pau-St-Maur France, composer
- Apr 21 Jaroslav Kvapil, composer
- Apr 22 Nikolai Obouhov, composer
- Apr 28 Georges Antoine, composer
- Apr 28 John Jacob Niles, American composer, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1980)
Deaths in Music
- Apr 22 Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, composer, dies at 69