February 1904 in Music

Events in Music


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Feb 17 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" premieres in Milan

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  • Feb 25 J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society
  • Feb 28 Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres

Birthdays in Music

  • Feb 2 Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer
  • Feb 3 Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer
  • Feb 4 Predrag Milosevic, composer
  • Feb 8 Igor' Fyodorovich Belza, composer
  • Feb 20 Armin Loos, German-born American composer, born in Darmstadt (d. 1971)
  • Feb 21 Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet
  • Feb 29 Alan Richardson, composer
  • Feb 29 Jimmy Dorsey, Shenandoah Pa, orchestra leader (Stage Show)
  • Feb 29 Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian dancer and founder of Kalakshetra (d. 1986)

Weddings in Music

  • Feb 2 US blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey

Deaths in Music

  • Feb 20 Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83