Events

• August 10 - The first ever Promenade Concert is held at the Queen's Hall in London.
• December 13 - The first complete performance of Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
  's Symphony No. 2
  Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)
  The Symphony No. 2 by Gustav Mahler, known as the Resurrection, was written between 1888 and 1894, and first performed in 1895. Apart from the Eighth Symphony, this symphony was Mahler's most popular and successful work during his lifetime. It is his first major work that would eventually mark his...
  
  in Berlin
  Berlin
  Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
  
  
• Composer Sidney Homer
  Sidney Homer
  Sidney Homer was a classical composer, primarily of songs.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in 1864 , he was the youngest child of deaf parents. He attended Phillips Academy, Andover, in the Class of 1884, but did not attend college. He married contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty in 1895...
  
   marries contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty
  Louise Homer
  Louise Homer was an American operatic contralto who had an active international career in concert halls and opera houses from 1895 until her retirement in 1932. After a brief stint as a vaudeville entertainer in New England, she made her professional opera debut in France in 1898...
  
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• Composer Zdeněk Fibich
  Zdenek Fibich
  Zdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works , symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas , melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia,...
  
   separates from his wife, the contralto Betty Fibichová
  Betty Fibichová
  Betty Fibichová was a Czechoslovak opera singer and the wife of composer Zdeněk Fibich. The greatest Czech operatic contralto of her day, she enjoyed close artistic partnerships with both Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana in addition to collaborating frequently with her husband.-Biography:Born...
  
  , and goes to live with his former student and lover Anežka Schulzová.
• Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño
  Teresa Carreño
  María Teresa Carreño García de Sena was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor.Born into a musical family, she was at first taught by her father, then by Mathias, Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Anton Rubinstein and her talent was recognized at an early age...
  
   divorces her husband, pianist Eugen d'Albert
  Eugen d'Albert
  Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer.Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria...
  
  . It marks the end of her third marriage and his second.

Published popular music

• "America The Beautiful
  America the Beautiful
  "America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward....
  
  "     w. Katherine Lee Bates m. Samuel A. Ward
• "The Band Played On
  The Band Played On
  The Band Played On, also known as Casey would waltz with a strawberry blonde, was a popular song, with lyrics by John F. Palmer and music by Charles B. Ward , written in 1895.The lyrics of the refrain:* , on IMDb*...
  
  "     w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward
• "The Belle Of Avenoo A"     w.m. Safford Waters
• "Down In Poverty Row"     w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan
• "A Dream"     w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett
• "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"     w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes
• "It's A Great Big Shame"     w.Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
• "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me"     w.m. Paul Dresser
  Paul Dresser
  Johann Paul Dresser, Jr. was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century. As a child and adolescent he was frequently in trouble and spent several months in jail before joining a band of traveling minstrels...
  
  
• "King Cotton March"     m. John Philip Sousa
  John Philip Sousa
  John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J....
  
  
• "My Angeline"     w. Harry B. Smith m. 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...
  
  
• "My Best Girl's A New Yorker"     w.m. John Stromberg
• "Put Me Off At Buffalo"     w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon
• "Rastus On Parade"     w. George Marion m. Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills was an American composer of popular music during the Tin Pan Alley era. His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime to cakewalk to marches. He was most prolific between 1895 and 1918....
  
  
• "She Was One Of The Early Birds"     w.m. T. W. Connor
• "Sleep Little Rosebud" w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton
• "The Soldiers Of The Queen"     w.m. Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart was an English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora and many popular songs. Stuart began writing songs in the late 1870s, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre; and ballads such as "Soldiers...
  
  
• "The Streets Of Cairo"     w.m. James Thornton
• "The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley"     w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton

Recorded popular music

• "Girl Wanted"
  - 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
• "The Band Played On"
  - 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....
  
  , Columbia Records
• "The Sidewalks of New York"
  - 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

• Léon Boëllmann
  Léon Boëllmann
  Léon Boëllmann was a French composer of Alsatian origin, known for a small number of compositions for organ. His best-known composition is Suite Gothique , still very much a staple of the organ repertoire, especially its dramatic concluding Toccata.-Biography:The son of a pharmacist, Boëllmann was...
  
   - Suite Gothique for Organ
• 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...
  
   - Sonatas for clarinet (or viola) and piano , op. 120 no. 1 (in f) and no. 2 (in E-flat)
• 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...
  
   - Cello Concerto in B minor
  Cello Concerto (Dvorák)
  The Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191, by Antonín Dvořák was the composer's last solo concerto, and was written in 1894–1895 for his friend, the cellist Hanuš Wihan, but premiered by the English cellist Leo Stern.- Structure :...
  
  , thirteenth
  String Quartet No. 13 (Dvorák)
  Antonín Dvořák composed his String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106, , between November and December 9, 1895. 1895 was an eventful year for him: he returned to Europe from America and his sister-in-law and first love both died. Upon finishing the String Quartet No...
  
   and fourteenth
  String Quartet No. 14 (Dvorák)
  The String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat major, op. 105, B. 193, was the last string quartet completed by Antonín Dvořák, even though it was published before his Thirteenth Quartet . Dvořák finished his Fourteenth Quartet in 1895, when he had returned to Bohemia after his visit to America...
  
   string quartets
• Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
   conducts the premieres of his Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" in [Berlin] - the first three movement only, on March 4th, and the complete symphony on December 13th.

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...

• Isaac Albéniz
  Isaac Albéniz
  Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
  
   - Henry Clifford
• Enrique Fernandez Arbos
  Enrique Fernandez Arbos
  Enrique Fernández Arbós was a Spanish violinist, composer and conductor who divided much of his career between Madrid and London. He originally made his name as a virtuoso violinist and later as one of Spain’s greatest conductors.Fernández Arbós was born in Madrid...
  
   - El Centro de la Tierra

Musical theater

• An Artist's Model
  An Artist's Model
  An Artist's Model is a two-act musical by Owen Hall, with lyrics by Harry Greenbank and music by Sidney Jones, with additional songs by Joseph and Mary Watson, Paul Lincke, Frederick Ross, Henry Hamilton and Leopold Wenzel. It opened at Daly's Theatre in London, produced by George Edwardes and...
  
       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 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 February 2 and ran for 392 performances
• Dandy Dick Whittington     London production
• 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...
  
       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 Palmer's Theatre on October 28 and ran for 72 performances
• The Tyrolean     London production

Births

• January 7 - Clara Haskil
  Clara Haskil
  Clara Haskil was a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire....
  
  , pianist
• January 27 - Buddy De Sylva
  Buddy De Sylva
  George Gard "Buddy" DeSylva was an American songwriter, film producer and record executive. He wrote or co-wrote many popular songs and along with Johnny Mercer and Glenn Wallichs he founded Capitol Records.-Biography:...
  
  , songwriter
• February 7 - Irving Aaronson
  Irving Aaronson
  Irving A. Aaronson was an American jazz pianist and big band leader.Born in New York, USA, Irving Aaronson learned piano from Alfred Sendry at the David Mannes School for music...
  
  
• February 28 - Guiomar Novaes
  Guiomar Novaes
  Guiomar Novaes was a Brazilian pianist noted for individuality of tone and phrasing, singing line, and a subtle and nuanced approach to her interpretations...
  
  , Brazilian pianist (died 1979)
• March 4 - Bjarne Brustad
  Bjarne Brustad
  Bjarne Brustad was a Norwegian composer, violinist and violist. He played with symphonic orchestras in Stavanger and Oslo. In the 1920s he travelled to European cities such as Paris, Munich and Berlin, where he received musical inspiration and contacts...
  
  , Norwegian composer and violinist (d. 1978)
• March 23 - Dane Rudhyar
  Dane Rudhyar
  Dane Rudhyar , born Daniel Chennevière, was an author, modernist composer and humanistic astrologer. He was the pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology.-Biography:...
  
  , composer (d. 1985)
• March 31 - Lizzie Miles
  Lizzie Miles
  Lizzie Miles was the stage name taken by Elizabeth Mary Landreaux , an African American blues singer.-Career:...
  
  , singer
• April 1 - Alberta Hunter
  Alberta Hunter
  Alberta Hunter was an American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse. Her career had started back in the early 1920s, and from there on, she became a successful jazz and blues recording artist, being critically acclaimed to the ranks of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith...
  
  , singer (d. 1984)
• April 3:
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he migrated to the United States and became a film composer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next...
    
    , composer
  • Zez Confrey
    Zez Confrey
    Edward Elzear "Zez" Confrey was an American composer and performer of piano music. His most noted works were "Kitten on the Keys," and "Dizzy Fingers."-Life and career:...
    
    , pianist and composer (d. 1971)
• April 9 - Mance Lipscomb
  Mance Lipscomb
  Mance Lipscomb was an American blues singer, guitarist and songster. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, United States, he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie .-Biography:Lipscomb was born April 9, 1895 to an ex-slave father from Alabama and...
  
  , popular singer
• April 23 - Jimmie Noone
  Jimmie Noone
  Jimmie Noone was an American jazz clarinetist.- Background :...
  
  , jazz musician
• April 29 - Sir Malcolm Sargent
  Malcolm Sargent
  Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works...
  
  , conductor
• May 1 - Leo Sowerby
  Leo Sowerby
  Leo Sowerby , American composer and church musician, was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1946, and was often called the “Dean of American church music” in the early to mid 20th century.-Biography:...
  
  , composer
• May 2 - Lorenz Hart
  Lorenz Hart
  Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...
  
  , US lyricist
• May 6 - Rudolph Valentino
  Rudolph Valentino
  Rudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik...
  
  , dancer and actor
• May 11 - William Grant Still
  William Grant Still
  William Grant Still was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major...
  
  , composer (d. 1978)
• June 10 - Hattie McDaniel
  Hattie McDaniel
  Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
  
  , singer and actress
• June 16 - Lew Pollack
  Lew Pollack
  Lew Pollack was a song composer active during the 1920s and the 1930s.Pollack was born in New York. Among his best known songs are "Charmaine" and "Diane" with Ernö Rapée, "Miss Annabelle Lee", "Two Cigarettes in the Dark", "At the Codfish Ball" , and Go In and Out The Window, now a...
  
  , US composer
• July 4 - Irving Caesar
  Irving Caesar
  Irving Caesar was an American lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for "Swanee," "Sometimes I'm Happy," "Crazy Rhythm," and "Tea for Two," one of the most frequently recorded tunes ever written. He was born and died in New York.Caesar, the son of Morris Keiser, a Romanian Jew, was...
  
  , US lyricist and librettist
• July 5 - Gordon Jacob
  Gordon Jacob
  Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob was an English composer. He is known for his wind instrument composition and his instructional writings.-Life:...
  
  , English composer (d. 1984)
• July 10 - Carl Orff
  Carl Orff
  Carl Orff was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana . In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential method of music education for children.-Early life:...
  
  , German composer (d. 1982)
• July 12 - Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
  , lyricist
• July 13 - Bradley Kincaid
  Bradley Kincaid
  William Bradley Kincaid was an American folk singer and radio entertainer.He was born in Point Level, Garrard County, Kentucky but built a music career in the northern states. His first radio appearance came in 1926 when he performed on the National Barn Dance show on WLS-AM in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  , folk singer
• July 25 - Yvonne Printemps
  Yvonne Printemps
  Yvonne Printemps was a French singer and actress.-Biography:Born Yvonne Wigniolle, she made her debut at the age of 12 in a revue at La Cigale in Paris. She was dancing at the Folies Bergère at age 13...
  
  , singer and actress (d. 1977)
• August 6 - Ernesto Lecuona
  Ernesto Lecuona
  Ernesto Lecuona y Casado was a Cuban composer and pianist of Canarian father and Cuban mother, and worldwide fame. He composed over six hundred pieces, mostly in the Cuban vein, and was a pianist of exceptional quality....
  
  , Cuban composer (d. 1963)
• August 10 - Harry Richman
  Harry Richman
  Harry Richman was an American entertainer. He was a singer, actor, dancer, comedian, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and night club performer, at his most popular in the 1920s and 1930s....
  
  , US singer, actor and composer
• August 13 - Bert Lahr
  Bert Lahr
  Bert Lahr was an American actor and comedian. Lahr is remembered today for his roles as the Cowardly Lion and Kansas farmworker Zeke in The Wizard of Oz, but was also well-known for work in burlesque, vaudeville, and on Broadway.-Early life:Lahr was born in New York City, of German-Jewish heritage...
  
  , vaudeville performer
• September 9 - Harry Tobias
  Harry Tobias
  Harry Tobias was an American lyricist. Like his younger brother Charles, he is an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame....
  
  , US lyric writer
• September 16 - Karol Rathaus, Austrian composer (from what is now the Ukraine) (d. 1954)
• September 22 - Herbert Janssen
  Herbert Janssen
  Herbert Janssen was a leading German operatic baritone who had an international career in Europe and the United States.- Biography :...
  
  , German baritone (d. 1965)
• September 26 - George Raft
  George Raft
  George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
  , Hollywood actor and Broadway entertainer
• October 11 - Jakov Gotovac
  Jakov Gotovac
  Jakov Gotovac was a Croatian composer and conductor of classical music. He is the author of the most famous Croatian opera, the comic Ero s onoga svijeta , which first played in Zagreb in 1935....
  
  , Croatian composer and conductor (d. 1982)
• October 12 - Tubby Hall
  Tubby Hall
  Alfred "Tubby" Hall was a jazz drummer.Hall was born in Sellers, Louisiana; his family moved to New Orleans in his childhood. His younger brother Minor "Ram" Hall also became a professional drummer...
  
  , jazz drummer
• October 17 - Doris Humphrey
  Doris Humphrey
  Doris Batcheller Humphrey was a dancer and choreographer of the early twentieth century. Humphrey was born in Oak Park, Illinois but grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Horace Buckingham Humphrey and Julia Ellen Wells and was a descendant of pilgrim William Brewster...
  
  , dancer
• October 29 - Harry Ruby
  Harry Ruby
  Harry Ruby was a Jewish American songwriter and screenwriter.After failing in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player,...
  
  , songwriter
• November 5 - Walter Gieseking
  Walter Gieseking
  Walter Wilhelm Gieseking was a French-born German pianist and composer.-Biography:Born in Lyon, France, the son of a German doctor and lepidopterist, Gieseking first started playing the piano at the age of four, but without formal instruction...
  
  , German pianist and composer
• November 16 - Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
  
  , German composer
• November 28 - José Iturbi
  José Iturbi
  José Iturbi was a Spanish conductor, harpsichordist and pianist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the 1943 musical, Thousands Cheer and in the 1945 film, Anchors Aweigh...
  
  , pianist (d. 1980)
• November 29 - Busby Berkeley
  Busby Berkeley
  Busby Berkeley was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. Berkeley was famous for his elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns...
  
  , film director, choreographer (d. 1976)
• November 30 - Johann Nepomuk David
  Johann Nepomuk David
  Johann Nepomuk David was an Austrian composer.He began his musical career in the monastery of Sankt Florian, and was a composition student of Joseph Marx....
  
  , composer
• December 2 - Harriet Cohen
  Harriet Cohen
  Harriet Cohen CBE was a British pianist.-Biography:Harriet Cohen was born in London and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay, having won the Ada Lewis scholarship at the age of 12. She made her debut at a Chappell's Sunday concert at the Queen's Hall a year later...
  
  , pianist (d. 1967)
• December 16 - Andy Razaf, composer, poet and lyricist (d. 1973)

Deaths

• January 10 - Benjamin Godard
  Benjamin Godard
  Benjamin Louis Paul Godard was a French violinist and Romantic composer.-Biography:Born in Paris, Godard was a student of Henri Vieuxtemps. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1863 where he studied under Vieuxtemps and Napoléon Henri Reber and accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany...
  
  , composer (b. 1849)
• January 22 - Edward Solomon
  Edward Solomon
  Edward Solomon was a prolific English composer, as well as a conductor, orchestrator and pianist. Though he died before his fortieth birthday, he wrote dozens of works produced for the stage, including several for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, such as The Nautch Girl, among others.-Early...
  
  , pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1855) (typhoid)
• February 6 - Otto Mahler
  Otto Mahler
  Otto Mahler was a Bohemian-Austrian musician and composer who committed suicide at the age of twenty-one.The twelfth child of Bernard and Marie Mahler, Otto was born in Jihlava and resembled his elder brother Gustav Mahler in displaying a special talent for music at an early age.Gustav Mahler was...
  
  , composer (b. 1873) (suicide)
• February 16 - Fredrik August Dahlgren
  Fredrik August Dahlgren
  Fredrik August Dahlgren was a Swedish writer, playwright and songwriter.Dahlgren was born in Nordmark parish in Värmland, son of Barthold Dahlgren, the manager of the mines at Taberg, and Anna Carolina Svensson...
  
  , songwriter (b. 1816)
• February 25 - Ignaz Lachner
  Ignaz Lachner
  Ignaz Lachner , was a German composer and conductor.Ignaz Lachner was born into a musical family at Rain am Lech. He was the second of the three famous Lachner brothers. Lachner's brothers Franz and Vinzenz, were also composers...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1807)
• March 16 - Richard Corney Grain
  Richard Corney Grain
  Richard Corney Grain , known by his stage name Corney Grain, was an entertainer and songwriter of the late Victorian era.-Biography:...
  
  , entertainer and songwriter (b. 1844) (influenza)
• March 18 - Priscilla Horton
  Priscilla Horton
  Priscilla Horton, later Priscilla German Reed , was a popular English singer and actress, known for her role as Ariel in W. C. Macready's production of The Tempest in 1838 and "fairy" burlesques at Covent Garden Theatre. Later, she was known, along with her husband, Thomas German Reed, for...
  
  , singer and actress (b. 1818)
• May 21 - Franz von Suppé
  Franz von Suppé
  Franz von Suppé or Francesco Suppé Demelli was an Austrian composer of light operas who was born in what is now Croatia during the time his father was working in this outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
  
  , composer (b. 1819)
• June 15 - Richard Genée
  Richard Genée
  Franz Friedrich Richard Genée was a Prussian born Austrian librettist, playwright, and composer.Genée was born in Danzig. One of his best known works was the libretto of Karl Millöcker's operetta Der Bettelstudent, which he co-wrote with Friedrich Zell .In 1876, Genée composed the operetta Der...
  
  , librettist and composer (b. 1823)
• June 28 - Ján Koehler
  Ján Koehler
  Ján Koehler was a Polish operatic baritone. Born in Lviv, he studied singing in his native city and in Vienna. He made his professional debut in Lviv in 1845 as Raimunds in Conradin Kreutzer's Der Verschwender...
  
  , operatic baritone
• July 13 - John Tiplady Carrodus
  John Tiplady Carrodus
  John Tiplady Carrodus was an English violinist. He was born on 20 January 1836, at Keighley, in Yorkshire. He made his first appearance as a violinist at the age of nine, and had the advantage of studying between the ages of twelve and eighteen at Stuttgart, with Bernhard Molique. On his return to...
  
  , violinist (b. 1836)
• August 6 - George Frederick Root
  George Frederick Root
  George Frederick Root was an American songwriter, who found particular fame during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  , US composer (b. 1820)
• August 13 - Ludwig Abel
  Ludwig Abel
  Ludwig Abel was a German violinist, composer, and conductor.Born in Eckartsberga, Province of Saxony, he was a pupil of Ferdinand David. He became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and in 1853 moved to the court orchestra of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in Weimar...
  
  , violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1834)
• September - Nipper
  Nipper
  Nipper was a dog that served as the model for a painting titled His Late Master's Voice. This image was the basis for the dog and trumpet logo used by several audio recording and associated brands: His Master's Voice, HMV, RCA, Victor Talking Machine Company, RCA Victor and JVC.- Biography :Nipper...
  
  , the dog on the HMV record label
• October 12 - Cecil Frances Alexander, hymn-writer (b. 1818)
• October 25 - Charles Hallé
  Charles Hallé
  Sir Charles Hallé was an Anglo-German pianist and conductor, and founder of The Hallé orchestra in 1858.-Life:Hallé was born in Hagen, Westphalia, Germany who after settling in England changed his name from Karl Halle...
  
  , pianist and conductor (b. 1819)
• November - Raffaele Mirate
  Raffaele Mirate
  Raffaele Mirate was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor who had an active career from the 1830s through the 1860s. Known for his intelligent phrasing and bright and powerful vocal timbre, he was regarded as an outstanding interpreter of the tenor roles in the early and middle period operas of...
  
  , operatic tenor (b. 1815)
• November 1 - Aleksander Zarzycki
  Aleksander Zarzycki
  Aleksander Zarzycki was a Polish pianist, composer and conductor. Author of piano and violin compositions, mazurkas, polonaises, krakowiaks, and songs....
  
  , pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1834)
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  • Charles Albrecht
    Charles Albrecht
    Charles Christian Albrecht was a composer who wrote the music for "Hymne Monégasque," the national anthem of Monaco, based on a previous version by Théophile Bellando de Castro. Lyrics were later added by Louis Notari....
    
    , composer of the national anthem of Monaco (b. 1817)
  • Basilio Basili
    Basilio Basili
    Basilio Basili was an Italian tenor and composer.Basili was born in Macerata. In 1827 he moved to Madrid where he debuted on September 14 at the Teatro de La Cruz singing Otello by Rossini. He moved permanently to Madrid in 1837, where he was a professor and served as a conductor and an...
    
    , operatic tenor and composer (b. 1804)