Events

• March 14 - Johan Svendsen
  Johan Svendsen
  Johan Severin Svendsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania , Norway, he lived most his life in Copenhagen, Denmark....
  
   conducts the world premiere of Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
  
  's Symphony No. 1
  Symphony No. 1 (Nielsen)
  Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 7, FS 16 is the first symphony of Danish composer Carl Nielsen. Written between 1891 and 1892, it was dedicated to his wife, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. The work's première, on 14 March 1894 was performed by Johan Svendsen conducting the Chapel Royal Orchestra , with...
  
  in Copenhagen
  Copenhagen
  Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
  
  
• December 22 - Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
  Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
  Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , commonly known by its English title Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration...
  
  is premiered in Paris
• Enrico Caruso makes his operatic debut
• George W. Johnson
  George W. Johnson
  George Washington Johnson was a singer and pioneer sound recording artist, the first African American recording star of the phonograph.-Early life:...
  
   is said to have recorded over 25,000 phonograph
  Phonograph
  The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...
  
   records
• The National College of Music
  National College of Music
  The National College of Music, London is a music examination organisation, offering external grade examinations in music, drama and speech both in the UK and overseas.- History :...
  
  , London, was formed by the Moss Family. The college still exists today as an examination board for music and drama.
• George H. Thomas develops the first illustrated song to promote The Little Lost Child
  The Little Lost Child
  The Little Lost Child is a popular song of 1894 by Edward B. Marks and Joseph W. Stern which sold more than two million copies of its sheet music following its promotion as the first ever illustrated song, an early precursor to the music video...
  
  , which goes on to sell more than two million copies of its sheet music nationwide.

Published popular music

• "Airy, Fairy Lillian" w. Tony Raymond m. Maurice Levi
• "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" w. Monroe H. Rosenfeld m. Felix McGlennon
• "At Trinity Church I Met My Doom" w.m. Fred Gilbert
• "Don't Be Cross" by Karl Zeller from the operetta
  Operetta
  Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...
  
   Der Obersteiger
• "Forgotten" w. Flora Wulschner m. Eugene Cowles
• "His Last Thoughts Were Of You" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
• "The Honeymoon" m. George Rosey
• "Humoresque" m. Antonín Dvořák
  Antonín Dvorák
  Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
  
  
• "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie
  Henry W. Petrie
  Henry W. Petrie was an American composer and performer of popular music. Petrie was born in Bloomington, Illinois and died in Paw Paw, Michigan.- Songs :* "Davy Jones' Locker"...
  
  
• "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
• "I'll Be True To My Honey Boy" w.m. George Evans
• "I've Been Working On The Railroad" w.m. trad (first copyright 1894)
• "Kathleen" w.m. Helene Mora
• "Little Kinkies" w.m. M. Tobias
• "The Little Lost Child
  The Little Lost Child
  The Little Lost Child is a popular song of 1894 by Edward B. Marks and Joseph W. Stern which sold more than two million copies of its sheet music following its promotion as the first ever illustrated song, an early precursor to the music video...
  
  " w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
• "Long Ago In Alcala" w. Frederick Edward Weatherley & Adrian Ross
  Adrian Ross
  For the NFL player see Adrian Ross Arthur Reed Ropes , better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
  
   m. André Messager
• "My Friend The Major" w.m. E. W. Rogers
• "My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" w. William Jerome m. Andrew Mack
  Andrew Mack (actor)
  Andrew Mack was an American vaudevillian, actor, singer and songwriter of Irish descent. Born William Andrew McAloon in Boston, Massachusetts, he began his career in 1876 using the stage name Andrew Williams.- External links :...
  
  
• "Oh! That Gorgonzola Cheese" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Harry Champion
  Harry Champion
  William Crump , better known by the stage name Harry Champion, was an English music hall composer, singer and Cockney comedian, whose onstage persona appealed chiefly to the working class communities of East London...
  
  
• "The Owls Serenade" w. Arthur J. Lamb, m. H.W. Petrie
• "She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" w.m. William B. Gray
• "She May Have Seen Better Days" w.m. James Thornton
• "The Sidewalks of New York
  The Sidewalks of New York
  "The Sidewalks of New York" is a popular song about life in New York City during the 1890s. It was created by lyricist James W. Blake and vaudeville actor and composer Charles B. Lawlor in 1894. The song proved successful afterwards, and is often considered a theme for New York City...
  
  " w.m. Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake
• ""Why Did Nellie Leave Home?" by George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
  George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....
  
  
• "Yale Society Two-Step" by C. VanBaar
• "You've Been A Good Old Wagon But You've Done Broke Down" by Ben Harney
  Ben Harney
  Benjamin Robertson "Ben" Harney was a United States of America songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music. His 1895 composition "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" is regarded as one of the first published ragtime songs...
  
  

Recorded popular music

• "And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back"
  - Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
  
  , Berliner Records
• "My Pearl is a Bowery Girl"
  - Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
  
  , Berliner Records

Classical music

• Anton Arensky
  Anton Arensky
  Anton Stepanovich Arensky -Biography:Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine...
  
   - Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
• Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
   - Two Clarinet Sonatas
  Clarinet Sonatas (Brahms)
  The Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120, Nos. 1 and 2 are a pair of works written for clarinet and piano by the Romantic composer Johannes Brahms. They were written in 1894 and are dedicated to the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld. The sonatas stem from a period in Brahms’s life where he “discovered” the beauty...
  
  , Op. 120
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
   - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
  Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
  Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , commonly known by its English title Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration...
  
  
• Robert Fuchs
  Robert Fuchs
  Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher.As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime....
  
   - Serenade No. 5 in D, Op. 53
• Alexander Gretchaninov
  Alexander Gretchaninov
  Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic composer.-His life:Gretchaninov started his musical studies rather late because his father, a businessman, had expected the boy to take over the family firm...
  
   - String Quartet no 1 (2?) in G major, Op. 2
• Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
   - Concerto for Cello no 2 in E minor
• Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
  Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
  Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov was a Russian composer, conductor and teacher.- Biography :...
  
   - Caucasian Sketches
• Joseph Jongen
  Joseph Jongen
  Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator.-Biography:Jongen was born in Liège. On the strength of an amazing precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven, and spent the next sixteen years...
  
   - Quartet for Strings no 1 in C minor, op. 3
• Alexander Kopylov
  Alexander Kopylov
  Alexander Alexandrovich Kopylov or Kopilov was a Russian composer and violinist....
  
   - String Quartet no 2 in F major, op. 23
• Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
  
   - Symphony No. 1 in G minor
  Symphony No. 1 (Nielsen)
  Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 7, FS 16 is the first symphony of Danish composer Carl Nielsen. Written between 1891 and 1892, it was dedicated to his wife, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. The work's première, on 14 March 1894 was performed by Johan Svendsen conducting the Chapel Royal Orchestra , with...
  
  ; Symfonisk Suite for piano, FS 19
• Josef Rheinberger
  Josef Rheinberger
  Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was a German organist and composer, born in Liechtenstein.-Short biography:...
  
   - Sonata for Horn and Piano in E flat major
• Adolphe Samuel
  Adolphe Samuel
  Adolphe-Abraham Samuel was a Belgian music critic, conductor and composer. Samuel was Jewish, and late in life converted to Christianity. He spent much time in Brussels where he was a pupil of François-Joseph Fétis, and where he was a friend of Hector Berlioz...
  
   - Symphony No. 7 Opus 48
• Wilhelm Stenhammar
  Wilhelm Stenhammar
  Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.-Biography:Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in music. He became a glowing admirer of German music, particularly that of Richard...
  
   - String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2
• Louis Vierne
  Louis Vierne
  Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer.-Life:Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French...
  
   - String Quartet in D minor, Op. 12 (c. 1894)

Opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

• Granville Bantock
  Granville Bantock
  Sir Granville Bantock was a British composer of classical music.-Biography:Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was a Scottish doctor. He was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but was drawn into the musical world. His first teacher was Dr Gordon Saunders at...
  
   - The Pearl of Iran
• Julius Bechgaard
  Julius Bechgaard
  Julius Andreas Bechgaard was a Danish composer of piano pieces, songs, and operas. His best known opera 'Frode" shows the influence of Wagner....
  
   - Frau Inge
• Herman Bemberg
  Herman Bemberg
  Herman Bemberg was a French musical composer.He was born in Paris of German Argentine parents and studied at the Paris Conservatoire, under Massenet, whose influence, with that of Gounod, is strongly marked in his music. He won the Rossini prize in 1885...
  
   - Cleopatra
• Frederick Delius
  Frederick Delius
  Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...
  
   - The Magic Fountain
• Charles-Édouard Lefebvre
  Charles-Édouard Lefebvre
  Charles-Édouard Lefebvre was a French composer.He studied with Charles Gounod and Ambroise Thomas. In 1870, he was awarded the Prix de Rome together with Henri Maréchal for Le Jugement de Dieu. He was the son of painter Charles Lefebvre...
  
   - Djelma premiered on May 25 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra
  Palais Garnier
  The Palais Garnier, , is an elegant 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. It was originally called the Salle des Capucines because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but soon became known as the Palais Garnier...
  
   in Paris
• Hamish MacCunn
  Hamish MacCunn
  thumb|right|Portrait of MacCunn, 1889, by [[John Pettie]]Hamish MacCunn , Scottish romantic composer, was born in Greenock, the son of a shipowner, and was educated at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.MacCunn's first success...
  
   - Jeanie Deans
• Jules Massenet
  Jules Massenet
  Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...
  
   - Thaïs (opera)
  Thaïs (opera)
  Thaïs is an opera in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet based on the novel Thaïs by Anatole France. It was first performed at the Opéra Garnier in Paris on 16 March 1894, starring the American soprano Sybil Sanderson, for whom Massenet had written the title role...
  
  
• Emile Pessard
  Emile Pessard
  Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard was a French composer.He studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he won 1st prize in Harmony. In 1866 he won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Dalila which was performed at the Paris Opera on February 21, 1867...
  
   - Le muet
• Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...
  
   - Oresteia (completed 1894, premiered 1895)

Musical theater

• A Gaiety Girl
  A Gaiety Girl
  A Gaiety Girl is an English musical comedy in two acts by a team of musical comedy neophytes: Owen Hall , Harry Greenbank and Sidney Jones . It opened at Prince of Wales Theatre in London, produced by George Edwardes, on 14 October 1893 and ran for 413 performances. The show starred C...
  
  - Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre
  Daly's Theatre
  Daly's Theatre was a theatre in the City of Westminster. It was located at 2 Cranbourn Street, just off Leicester Square. It opened on 27 June 1893, and was demolished in 1937.-Early years:...
  
   on September 17 and ran for 81 performances
• Der Obersteiger - Austrian production opened at the Theater an der Wien
  Theater an der Wien
  The Theater an der Wien is a historic theatre on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district of Vienna. Completed in 1801, it has seen the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music...
  
   on January 5
• The Passing Show
  The Passing Show
  The Passing Show was a musical revue in three acts, billed as a "topical extravaganza", with a book and lyrics by Sydney Rosenfeld and music by Ludwig Engländer and various other composers. It featured spoofs of theatrical productions of the past season. The show was presented in 1894 by George...
  
  - Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
  
   production opened at the Casino Theatre on May 5
• Rob Roy Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on October 29 and ran for 168 performances
• The Shop Girl
  The Shop Girl
  The Shop Girl was a musical comedy in two acts written by H. J. W. Dam, with Lyrics by Dam and Adrian Ross and music by Ivan Caryll, and additional numbers by Lionel Monckton and Ross. It was first produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre in London, opening on 24 November 1894...
  
  - London production
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
  
   opened at the Gaiety Theatre
  Gaiety Theatre, London
  The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was rebuilt several times, but closed from the beginning of World War II...
  
   on November 24 and ran for 546 performances
• A Trip To Chinatown
  A Trip to Chinatown
  A Trip to Chinatown is a musical comedy in three acts by Charles H. Hoyt with music by Percy Gaunt and lyrics by Hoyt, that became a silent film featuring Anna May Wong half a century later. In addition to the Gaunt and Hoyt score, many songs were interpolated into the score at one time or another...
  
  - London
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
  
   production opened at Toole's Theatre on September 29 and ran for 125 performances

Births

• January 31 - Isham Jones
  Isham Jones
  Isham Jones was a United States bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.-Career:Jones was born in Coalton, Ohio, to a musical and mining family, and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, where he started his first band...
  
  , US bandleader and composer (d. 1956)
• February 11 - Alfonso Leng
  Alfonso Leng
  Alfonso Leng was a post-romantic composer of classical music and dentist. He was born in Santiago, Chile. He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, "La Muerte de Alcino", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado...
  
  , dentist and part-time composer (d. 1974)
• April 3 - Dooley Wilson
  Dooley Wilson
  Arthur "Dooley" Wilson was an American actor and singer. He was born in Tyler, Texas, and is remembered as piano-player "Sam" who sings "As Time Goes By" at the request of Ilsa Lund in the 1942 film, Casablanca - the Sam in the famously misremembered line "Play it again, Sam" -- a phrase which...
  
  , pianist and singer (d. 1953)
• April 15 - Bessie Smith
  Bessie Smith
  Bessie Smith was an American blues singer.Sometimes referred to as The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  , blues singer (d. 1937)
• April 27 - Nicolas Slonimsky
  Nicolas Slonimsky
  Nicolas Slonimsky was a Russian born American composer, conductor, musician, music critic, lexicographer and author. He described himself as a "diaskeuast" ; "a reviser or interpolator."- Life :...
  
  , conductor and composer (d. 1995)
• May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin
  Dimitri Tiomkin
  Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian-born Hollywood film score composer and conductor. He is considered "one of the giants of Hollywood movie music." Musically trained in Russia, he is best known for his westerns, "where his expansive, muscular style had its greatest impact." Tiomkin...
  
  , Russian-born US composer, pianist and conductor
• May 29 -Beatrice Lillie
  Beatrice Lillie
  Beatrice Gladys "Bea" Lillie was an actress and comedic performer. Following her 1920 marriage to Sir Robert Peel in England, she was known in private life as Lady Peel.-Early career:...
  
  , Canadian actress and singer (d. 1989)
• June 4 - La Bolduc
  La Bolduc
  Mary Rose-Anna Travers, was a French Canadian singer and musician. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s, she was known as the Queen of Canadian Folksingers. Bolduc is often considered to be Quebec's first singer/songwriter...
  
   (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
• June 10 - Punch Miller
  Punch Miller
  Ernest Miller aka Punch Miller or Kid Punch Miller , was a Dixieland jazz trumpeter.Miller was born in Raceland, Louisiana. He was known in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was based from 1919 to 1927 when he moved Chicago...
  
  , jazz trumpeter (d. 1971)
• July 10 - Jimmy McHugh
  Jimmy McHugh
  James Francis McHugh was a U.S. composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs...
  
  , US composer and pianist
• August 15 - Harry Akst
  Harry Akst
  Harry Akst was an American songwriter, who started out his career as a pianist in vaudeville accompanying singers such as Nora Bayes, Frank Fay and Al Jolson.-Life and career:Akst was born in New York, United States....
  
  , US composer and pianist
• September 3 – Marie Dubas
  Marie Dubas
  Marie Dubas was a music-hall singer, diseuse and comedienne.Born in Paris, France, Marie Dubas began her career as a stage actress but became famous as a singer. Using the great Yvette Guilbert as her model, Dubas started singing in the small cabarets of Montmartre mixing comedy into her routine...
  
  , French music-hall singer (d. 1972)
• September 18 - Willard Robison
  Willard Robison
  Willard Robison was an American composer of popular song. Born in Shelbina, Missouri, his songs reflect a rural, melancholy theme steeped in Americana. Their warm style has drawn comparison to Hoagy Carmichael...
  
  , US songwriter and bandleader
• September 26 - Vaughn De Leath
  Vaughn De Leath
  Vaughn De Leath was an American female singer who gained popularity in the 1920s, earning the sobriquets "The Original Radio Girl" and "First Lady of Radio." Although popular in the 1920s, De Leath is little known today....
  
  , US singer and radio pioneer
• December 31 - Ernest John Moeran
  Ernest John Moeran
  Ernest John Moeran was an English composer who had strong associations with Ireland .-Early life:...
  
  , British composer (d. 1950)

Deaths

• January 13 - Nadezhda von Meck
  Nadezhda von Meck
  Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck was a Russian businesswoman, who is best known today for her artistic relationship with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She supported him financially for 13 years, enabling him to devote himself full-time to composition, but she stipulated that they were never to meet. ...
  
  , patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
• January 21 - Guillaume Lekeu
  Guillaume Lekeu
  Guillaume Lekeu was a Belgian composer of classical music.- Life :Lekeu, who was born in Verviers, Belgium, took his first lessons at the conservatoire in that city. In 1879, his parents moved to Poitiers, France. There, he finished school while he continued his music studies autodidactically...
  
  , composer (b. 1870) (typhoid)
• February 4
  • Louis Lewandowski
    Louis Lewandowski
    Louis Lewandowski was a German composer of synagogal music.Lewandowski was born at Wreschen, province of Posen, Prussia . At the age of twelve he went to Berlin to study piano and voice, and became solo soprano in the synagogue. Afterward he studied for three years under A. B...
    
    , composer (b. 1821)
  • Adolphe Sax
    Adolphe Sax
    Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax was a Belgian musical instrument designer and musician who played the flute and clarinet, and is best known for having invented the saxophone.-Biography:...
    
    , Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814)
• February 11 - Emilio Arrieta
  Emilio Arrieta
  Pascual Juan Emilio Arrieta Corera was a Spanish composer.Arrieta was born in Puente la Reina, Navarre, and died in Madrid...
  
  , composer (b. 1823)
• February 12 - Hans von Bülow
  Hans von Bülow
  Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. He was one of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, and his activity was critical for establishing the successes of several major composers of the time, including Richard...
  
  , pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1830)
• February 18 - Camillo Sivori
  Camillo Sivori
  Ernesto Camillo Sivori, was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer.Born in Genoa, he was the only pupil of Paganini. He also studied with Restano, Giacomo Costa and Dellepiane....
  
  , violinist and composer (b. 1815)
• March 21 - Jakob Rosenhain
  Jakob Rosenhain
  Jakob Rosenhain was a Jewish and German pianist and composer of classical music.Rosenhain made his debut at the age of 11...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1813)
• April 13
  • Marie Carandini
    Marie Carandini
    Marie Carandini, née Burgess, was an English-born Australian opera singer.-Early life:Carandini was born in Brixton, London, the daughter of James and Martha Medwin Burgess and was brought by her parents to Van Diemen's Land in 1833...
    
    , opera singer (b. 1826)
  • Philipp Spitta
    Philipp Spitta
    Julius August Philipp Spitta was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach.-Biography:...
    
    , musicologist and biographer of Bach (b. 1841)
• June 9 - Juventino Rosas
  Juventino Rosas
  José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas was a Mexican composer and violinist.-Life and career:Rosas was born in Santa Cruz de Galeana, Guanajuato, now renamed Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas. Rosas began his musical career as a street musician and playing with dance music bands in Mexico City...
  
  , violinist and composer (b. 1868)
• June 23 - Marietta Alboni
  Marietta Alboni
  Marietta Alboni was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. Together with the charismatic Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest deeper-voiced female singer of the nineteenth century.-Biography:...
  
  , operatic contralto (b. 1826)
• July 9 - Juventino Rosas
  Juventino Rosas
  José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas was a Mexican composer and violinist.-Life and career:Rosas was born in Santa Cruz de Galeana, Guanajuato, now renamed Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas. Rosas began his musical career as a street musician and playing with dance music bands in Mexico City...
  
  , violinist, bandleader and composer (b. 1868)
• July 26 - Eduard Tauwitz
  Eduard Tauwitz
  Eduard Tauwitz was a German composer and native of Glatz, Prussian Silesia. While studying law at the University of Breslau he devoted himself to music under the direction of Wolf and Mosovius. At the same time he took charge of the Akademische Gesangverein...
  
  , composer (b. 1812)
• September 13 - Emmanuel Chabrier
  Emmanuel Chabrier
  Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas , songs, and piano music as well...
  
  , composer (b. 1841)
• September 21 - Emma Fursch-Madi
  Emma Fursch-Madi
  Emma Fursch-Madi was a renowned French operatic soprano. She was born at Bayonne, France, studied at the Paris Conservatory and made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1871 in Gounod’s Faust. At the end of her second season at the Grand Opera, she was chosen by Verdi to be the first representative of...
  
  , operatic soprano (b. 1847)
• October 16 - Johanna Jachmann-Wagner
  Johanna Jachmann-Wagner
  Johanna Jachmann-Wagner or Johanna Wagner was a mezzo-soprano singer, tragédienne in theatrical drama, and teacher of singing and theatrical performance who won great distinction in Europe during the third quarter of the 19th century...
  
  , opera singer, actress and music teacher (b. 1826)
• October 28 - Rudolf Hildebrand
  Rudolf Hildebrand
  Heinrich Rudolf Hildebrand was a Germanist, contributor to and then editor of the Grimm brothers' Deutsches Wörterbuch. He wrote also on the history of German folksongs, and on the teaching of the German language in schools. He was professor at the University of Leipzig from 1868....
  
  , historian of the German folk song (b. 1824)
• November 4 - Eugène Oudin
  Eugène Oudin
  Eugène Esperance Oudin was an American baritone, composer and translator of the Victorian era.-Early years:...
  
  , composer (b. 1858)
• November 20 - Anton Rubinstein
  Anton Rubinstein
  Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1829)