Events in Music
Music Premiere
May 29 Ignacy Jan Paderewski's opera "Manru" has its world premiere in Dresden

Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Birthdays in Music
- May 1 Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (d. 1985)
- May 5 Blind Willie McTell, American ragtime singer and guitarist (d. 1959)
- May 7 Marcel Poot, Belgian baron and composer, born in Vilvoorde, Belgium (d. 1988)
- May 12 Hyam Greenbaum, composer
- May 17 Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer (Die Zaubergeige)
- May 18 Harry Robert Wilson, composer
- May 18 Henri-Pierre Sauguet, composer (La Chotte), born in Bordeaux, France
- May 19 Manuel Ivo Cruz, Portuguese composer and founder of Philharmonic Orchestra of Lisbon, born in Corumbá, Brazil (d. 1985)
- May 21 Horace Heidt, Alameda California, orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon)
- May 23 Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23]
- May 25 Milenko Zivkovic, composer
- May 31 Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983)