Events in Music
- Jan 3 Kelman, Cushing, and Heath's musical "Sari," premieres in NYC
- Jan 13 IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
- Jan 24 Opera "Madeleine" premieres in NYC
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 3 Jean Louvel, Flemish pianist, conductor, and composer
- Jan 8 Charles Borromeo Mills, composer
- Jan 9 Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer & bandleader (Epistrop), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1985)
- Jan 16 Roger Wagner, French-American choral director, and educator, was born in Le Puy, France (d. 1992)
- Jan 22 Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer, born in Platanoussa, Greece (d. 2001)
- Jan 29 Menelaos Pallantios, Greek composer, born in Piraeus (d. 2012)
Deaths in Music
- Jan 3 Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer, dies at 62
- Jan 13 Valentin Zubiaurre Spanish composer (Ferdinand Set), and educator, dies at 76
- Jan 20 Emil Liebling, German-American composer, dies at 62
- Jan 20 (Henry Southwick) H.S. Perkins, American hymn composer, lyricist, conductor, and teacher, dies at 80
- Jan 22 Frederik Rung, Danish composer, dies at 60
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