Events in Music
- Feb 7 American opera "Peter Ibbetson" by Deems Taylor premieres at Metropolitan Opera, New York City
Music Premiere
Feb 10 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "America's Sweetheart" premieres on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre, NYC
Birthdays in Music
- Feb 4 Barry Feinstein, American portrait photographer and album cover designer (Bob Dylan; Peter, Paul & Mary; Janis Joplin; George Harrison), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2011)
- Feb 6 Mamie Van Doren, American actress, model, singer, and sex symbol (Teacher's Pet, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters), born in Rowena, South Dakota
- Feb 8 Shadia [Fatmah Ahmed Kamal Shaker], Egyptian actress and singer Midaq Alley, The Thief and the Dogs), born in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, birth date disputed (d. 2017)
- Feb 9 Harry Halbreich, German-Belgian musicologist (Arthur Honegger, Bohuslav Martinů, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2016)
- Feb 9 Xavier Benguerel, Catalan composer (Llibre Vermell; Jo, Dalí), born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 2017)
- Feb 10 Gerhard Rosenfeld, German opera and film score composer, born in Königsberg (d. 2003)
- Feb 10 Makoto Shinohara, Japanese composer (Yumeji (Ways of Dreams); To Rain and Wind), born in Osaka, Japan
- Feb 11 Bobby Lamb, Irish jazz trombonist, composer, and conductor, born in Cork, Irish Free State
- Feb 14 Phyllis McGuire, American pop vocalist (McGuire Sisters - "Sincerely"; "Sugartime"), born in Middletown, Ohio (d. 2020)
- Feb 16 Ken Takakura [Goichi Oda], Japanese actor and singer (Black Rain, Story of Antarctic), born in Nakama, Fukuoka (d. 2014)
- Feb 18 Dieter Schonbach, composer
- Feb 24 Dominic Chianese, American actor, singer, and musician (The Sopranos, The Godfather Part II), born in The Bronx, New York
- Feb 26 Francisco Kroepfl, Argentinian composer, born in Timișoara, Romania
Deaths in Music
- Feb 7 Ion Vidu, Romanian composer and conductor, dies at 67
Nellie Melba (1861-1931)
Feb 23 Australian operatic soprano and face of the Australian 100 dollar note, dies at 69
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