Events in Music
Music Premiere
Feb 17 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" premieres in Milan
Giacomo Puccini
- 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, Dutch composer, dies at 83