Events in Music
- Jan 25 Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 5 Pierre Palla, Dutch pianist/organist
- Jan 6 Mark Brunswick, composer
- Jan 6 Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte, composer
- Jan 8 Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreography (Silent Song)
- Jan 9 Rudolph Bing, opera manager (NY Metropolitan Opera)
- Jan 11 Maurice Durufle, French organist/composer
- Jan 16 Evelyn Danzig [Levine], American composer (Scarlet Ribbons), born in Waco, Texas (d. 1996)
- Jan 23 Benjamin "Benny" Waters, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1998)
Deaths in Music
- Jan 18 Filippo Marchetti, composer, dies at 70