Events in Music
- Feb 21 Franz Lehr's opera "Der Zarewitsch" premieres
Birthdays in Music
- Feb 2 Richard Vance Maxfield, composer
- Feb 2 Stan Getz [Stanley Gayetski], American jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1991)
- Feb 3 Val Doonican [Michael Valentine], Irish singer and entertainer, born in Waterford (d. 2015)
- Feb 7 John Buller, British composer, born in London (d. 2004)
- Feb 8 Zdenek Zouhar, composer
Leontyne Price
Feb 10 Leontyne Price, American opera soprano (Porgy & Bess), born in Laurel, Mississippi
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- Feb 15 Gottfrid Grasbeck, composer
- Feb 21 Pierre Mercure, composer
- Feb 22 David Ahlstrom, composer
- Feb 23 Ivan Hrušovský, Slovak composer and educator (Rytmus), born in Bratislava, Slovakia (d. 2001)
- Feb 25 Jacques Monod, composer
- Feb 25 Ralph Stanley, Amerian bluegrass musician, born in Dickenson County, Virginia (d. 2016)
- Feb 26 Donald Gramm, bass-baritone, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Feb 27 Guy Mitchell [Albert George Cernik], American singer and actor (Red Garters, 3 Redheads from Seattle), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1999)