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
Music Premiere
Feb 28 Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
Vincent d'Indy
Birthdays in Music
- Feb 1 Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, American trombonist and plunger-mute pioneer (Duke Ellington Orchestra), born in New York City (d. 1946)
- Feb 2 Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer
- Feb 3 Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian 12-tone composer, born in Pisino, Austrian Empire (d. 1975)
- 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, Scottish composer and pianist, born in Edinbugh, Scotland (d. 1978)
- Feb 29 Jimmy Dorsey, American orchestra leader (Stage Show), born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania
- 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
