Events in Music
Music Premiere
Feb 12 Symphony in B minor "Polonia", by polish composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski has its public premiere with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Birthdays in Music
- Feb 1 George Beverly Shea, American gospel singer, born in Winchester, Ontario
- Feb 5 Grazyna Bacewicz, composer
- Feb 6 Israel Citkowitz, composer
- Feb 9 Carmen Miranda, Portuguese vocalist and actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy), born in Marco de Canavezes, Portugal (d. 1955)
- Feb 9 Harald Genzmer, composer
- Feb 12 Barry Wood, vocalist (Your Hit Parade), born in New Haven, Connecticut
- Feb 17 Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannhäuser)
- Feb 21 George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director
- Feb 27 Elisabeth Welch, singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon)