Events

• April 28 - Kullervo
  Kullervo (Sibelius)
  Kullervo, Op. 7 is an early symphonic poem for soloists, chorus and orchestra, written by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.The work, based on the character of Kullervo from the epic poem Kalevala, premiered to great critical acclaim on 28 April 1892. The soloists at the premiere were Emmy Achté...
  
  by Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
  
   is premiered.
• May 26 - A statue of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, by Werner Stein, is dedicated at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Removed by the Nazis in the 1930s, it will be re-dedicated in 2008.
• September 24 - Opening of the "Theater Unter den Linden"
  Komische Oper Berlin
  The Komische Oper Berlin is an opera company in Berlin, Germany, which specializes in German language productions of opera, operetta and musicals....
  
   in Berlin with Adolf Ferron's operetta Daphne and Gaul and Haßreiter's ballet Die Welt in Bild und Tanz.
• December 18 (December 6 O.S.) - Iolanta
  Iolanta
  Iolanta, Op. 69, is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play Kong Renés Datter by Henrik Hertz. The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Zotov...
  
   by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
   is premiered in Saint Petersburg
  Saint Petersburg
  Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
  
  .
• "After the Ball
  After the Ball (song)
  After the Ball is a popular song written in 1891 by Charles K. Harris. The song is a classic waltz in 3/4 time. In the song, an older man tells his niece why he has never married. He saw his sweetheart kissing another man at a ball, and he refused to listen to her explanation...
  
  " becomes the first sheet music
  Sheet music
  Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols; like its analogs—books, pamphlets, etc.—the medium of sheet music typically is paper , although the access to musical notation in recent years includes also presentation on computer screens...
  
   to sell over 1 million copies (for a single publisher in a single year)
• Erik Satie
  Erik Satie
  Éric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde...
  
   composes his first pieces in his own compositional system.
• Sergei Diaghilev
  Sergei Diaghilev
  Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.-Early life and career:...
  
   graduates from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory
  Saint Petersburg Conservatory
  The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students.-History:...
  
  .
• Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...
  
  's Symphony No. 8 in C minor
  Symphony No. 8 (Bruckner)
  Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor is the last Symphony the composer completed. It exists in two major versions of 1887 and 1890. It was premiered under conductor Hans Richter in 1892 in Vienna...
  
   is premiered in Vienna with Hans Richter
  Hans Richter (conductor)
  Hans Richter was an Austrian orchestral and operatic conductor.-Biography:Richter was born in Raab , Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother was opera-singer Jozsefa Csazenszky. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory...
  
   conducting.

Published popular music

• "After the Ball
  After the Ball (song)
  After the Ball is a popular song written in 1891 by Charles K. Harris. The song is a classic waltz in 3/4 time. In the song, an older man tells his niece why he has never married. He saw his sweetheart kissing another man at a ball, and he refused to listen to her explanation...
  
  "     w.m. Charles K. Harris
  Charles K. Harris
  Charles Kassel Harris was a well regarded American songwriter of popular music. During his long career, he advanced the relatively new genre, publishing more than 300 songs, often deemed by admirers as the "king of the tear jerkers"...
  
  
• "The Bowery
  The Bowery (Song)
  The Bowery is a song from the musical A Trip to Chinatown with music by Percy Gaunt and lyrics by Charles H. Hoyt. The musical toured the country for several years, then opened on Broadway in 1891.-Description:...
  
  "     w. Charles H. Hoyt m. Percy Gaunt
• "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow
  Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow
  "Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow Wow" is a song written in 1892 by prolific English songwriter Joseph Tabrar.It was written for, and first performed in 1892 by, Vesta Victoria at the South London Palace, holding a kitten. The same year it was recorded by Silas Leachman for the North American Phonograph...
  
  "     w.m. Joseph Tabrar
• "Daisy Bell
  Daisy Bell
  "Daisy Bell" is a popular song with the well-known chorus "Daisy, Daisy/Give me your answer do/I'm half crazy/all for the love of you" as well as the line "...a bicycle built for two".-History:"Daisy Bell" was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892...
  
  " (aka "A Bicycle Built For Two")     w.m. Harry Dacre
• "Flanagan" w.m. C. W. Murphy & William Letters
• "Future Mrs. 'Awkins" by Albert Chevalier
• "The Holy City"     w. Frederick Edward Weatherly
  Frederick Weatherly
  Frederic Edward Weatherly was an English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster. He is estimated to have written the lyrics to at least 3,000 popular songs, among the best-known of which are the sentimental ballad Danny Boy set to the tune Londonderry Air, the religious "The Holy City", and the...
  
   m. Stephen Adams
• "La Sultana Turkish March" m. Fred Linden
• "Liebestraum Nocturne
  Liebesträume
  Liebesträume , is a set of three solo piano works by Franz Liszt, published in 1850. Liszt called each of the three pieces Liebesträume, but often they are referred to incorrectly in the singular as Liebestraum...
  
  " m. Virginia Field
  Virginia Field
  Virginia Field was a British-born film actress.Born Margaret Cynthia Field in London, her father was the judge of England's Leicester County Court Circuit. Her mother was a cousin of Robert E...
  
  
• "Molly And I And The Baby"     w.m. Harry Kennedy
• "My Old Dutch
  My Old Dutch (song)
  "My Old Dutch" is an 1892 music hall and vaudeville song performed by Albert Chevalier. The lyrics were written by Chevalier, with music composed by his brother Auguste under the name Charles Ingle...
  
  "     w. Albert Chevalier
  Albert Chevalier
  Albert Onesime Britannicus Gwathveoyd Louis Chevalier was an English comedian and actor.-Early life:Albert Chevalier was born in the Royal Crescent, in London's Notting Hill...
  
   m. Charles Ingle
  Charles Ingle
  Charles Ingle was an English composer. Ingle was the brother and manager of performer Albert Chevalier. Ingle was one of six children. He had two brothers, Albert and Bertram; and a sister, Adéle...
  
  
• "My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon"     w.m. James Thornton
• "The Sweetest Story Ever Told"     w.m. R. M. Stults
• "The Virginia Skedaddle" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld

Recorded popular music

• "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow "
  - 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....
  
  
• "The Bowery"
  - 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....
  
  

Classical music

• 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...
  
   - Intermezzos opus number
  Opus number
  An Opus number , pl. opera and opuses, abbreviated, sing. Op. and pl. Opp. refers to a number generally assigned by composers to an individual composition or set of compositions on publication, to help identify their works...
  
   117
• Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
  
   - String Quintet in A major (opus 39)
• 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...
  
   - Das himmlische Leben (later incorporated into his fourth symphony
  Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)
  The Symphony No. 4 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1899 and 1901, though it incorporates a song originally written in 1892. The song, "Das himmlische Leben", presents a child's vision of Heaven. It is sung by a soprano in the work's fourth and last movement...
  
  )
• Miguel Marqués
  Miguel Marqués
  Pedro Miguel Juan Buenaventura Bernadino Marqués y García was a Spanish composer and violinist.-Life:He was the son of a chocolate maker...
  
   - El Centinelo
• 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...
  
   - First Symphony
  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...
  
  
• Joseph Parry
  Joseph Parry
  Joseph Parry , was a Welsh composer and musician. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, he is best known as the composer of Myfanwy and Aberystwyth used in Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika the National anthem of South Africa.The cottage at 4 Chapel Row, Merthyr Tydfil, where Parry was born, is now open to the...
  
   - Saul of Tarsus (oratorio)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
  
   - Prelude in C-sharp Minor
  Prelude in C-sharp minor (Rachmaninoff)
  Prelude in C-sharp minor , Op. 3, No. 2, is one of Sergei Rachmaninoff's most famous compositions. It is a ternary prelude in C-sharp minor, 62 measures long, and part of a set of five pieces entitled Morceaux de Fantaisie....
  
  and Piano Concerto No. 1
  Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rachmaninoff)
  Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1, in 1892, at age 19. He dedicated the work to Alexander Siloti. He revised the work thoroughly in 1917.-First version:...
  
   in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
• Max Reger
  Max Reger
  Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
  
   - Cello Sonata No. 1, opus 5
• Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
  
   - Piano Sonata No. 1
  Sonata No. 1 (Scriabin)
  The Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, opus 6, by Alexander Scriabin, was the first of ten piano sonatas which Scriabin composed throughout his career. It was completed in 1892. The key of the sonata is the dark key of F minor...
  
   in F minor, opus 6
• Josef Suk
  Josef Suk (composer)
  Josef Suk was a Czech composer and violinist.- Life :Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák and Antonín Bennewitz. In 1898, he married Dvořák's eldest daughter, Otilie Dvořáková , affectionately known as Otilka...
  
   - Serenade for Strings in E flat major
• Alexander von Zemlinsky
  Alexander von Zemlinsky
  Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.-Early life:...
  
   - Symphony in D minor

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...

• 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...
  
   - Elaine
• Karel Bendl
  Karel Bendl
  Karel or Karl Bendl was a Czech composer.He studied at the organ school, where he met and befriended Antonín Dvořák one year before graduating with honors in 1858. By then he had already composed a number of small choral works...
  
   - Dite Tabora
• Alfredo Catalani
  Alfredo Catalani
  Alfredo Catalani was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley and La Wally...
  
   - La Wally
  La Wally
  La Wally is a four-act opera by Alfredo Catalani, composed on a libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed at La Scala, Milan on 20 January 1892....
  
  
• Gialdino Gialdini
  Gialdino Gialdini
  Gialdino Gialdini was an Italian composer and orchestra conductor.He studied at Florence with Teodulo Mabellini. He won a prize offered by the Pergola Theatre of that city for the best opera, with Rosmunda, which met, however, with an unfavorable reception when produced in 1868...
  
   - I due soci premiered February 24 at the Teatro Brunetti, Bologna
  Bologna
  Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
  
  
• Umberto Giordano
  Umberto Giordano
  Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.He was born in Foggia in Puglia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples...
  
   - Mala Vita
• Isidore de Lara
  Isidore de Lara
  Isidore de Lara, born Isidore Cohen , was an English composer and singer. After studying in Italy and France, he returned to England where he taught for several years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and became a well known singer and composer of art songs...
  
   - The Light of Asia
• Ruggiero Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci
• 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...
  
   - Werther
  Werther
  Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on the German epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....
  
  
• Adolf Neuendorff
  Adolf Neuendorff
  Adolf Heinrich Anton Magnus Neuendorff, also known as Adolph Neuendorff was a German-American composer, violinist, pianist and conductor, stage director and theater manager.-Early years:...
  
   - The Minstrel
• The World's Fair
  World's Fair
  World's fair, World fair, Universal Exposition, and World Expo are various large public exhibitions held in different parts of the world. The first Expo was held in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom, in 1851, under the title "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All...
  
   Colored Opera Company, with featured singer, soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones were the first African-American performers to appear at Carnegie Hall
  Carnegie Hall
  Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
  
  

Musical theater

• Blue-Eyed Susan by George Robert Sims
  George Robert Sims
  George Robert Sims was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant.Sims began writing lively humour and satiric pieces for Fun magazine and The Referee, but he was soon concentrating on social reform, particularly the plight of the poor in London's slums...
  
  
• "Dorothy
  Dorothy (opera)
  Dorothy is a comic opera in three acts with music by Alfred Cellier and a libretto by B. C. Stephenson. The story involves a rake who falls in love with his disguised fiancée.It was first produced at the Gaiety Theatre in London on in 1886...
  
  "     London revival
• "Maid Marian
  Maid Marian
  Maid Marian is the wife of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. Stemming from another, older tradition, she became associated with Robin Hood only in the 16th century.-History:The earliest medieval Robin Hood stories gave him no female companion...
  
  " (retitled version of "Robin Hood
  Robin Hood
  Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....
  
  ")     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
• "Maid Marian
  Maid Marian
  Maid Marian is the wife of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. Stemming from another, older tradition, she became associated with Robin Hood only in the 16th century.-History:The earliest medieval Robin Hood stories gave him no female companion...
  
  " (sequel to "Robin Hood
  Robin Hood
  Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....
  
  ")     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

Top hits

• "Slide, Kelly, Slide" by George J. Gaskin
  George J. Gaskin
  -Career:Born in Belfast, Ireland, he became one of the most popular singers the United States in the 1890s and was nicknamed the "Silver Voiced Irish Tenor". His earliest known recordings were done for the Edison North American Phonograph Company on June 2, 1891...
  
  
• "Sally in Our Alley" by Manhansett Quartette

Births

• January 1 - Artur Rodziński
  Artur Rodzinski
  Artur Rodziński was a Polish conductor of opera and symphonic music. He is especially noted for his tenures as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic in the 1930s and 1940s.-Biography:...
  
  , Polish conductor (d. 1958)
• January 31 - Eddie Cantor
  Eddie Cantor
  Eddie Cantor was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter...
  
   (d. 1964)
• February 4 - Yrjö Kilpinen
  Yrjö Kilpinen
  Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen was a Finnish composer. He was born in Helsinki, and in 1907 he started his studies in the Helsingin Musiikkiopisto . In 1910 Kilpinen moved to Vienna to continue his studies and from 1913 to 1914 he studied in Berlin.Kilpinen is most famous for composing 790 works in the...
  
  , Finnish
  Finland
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
  
   composer (d. 1959) known most for his lied
  Lied
  is a German word literally meaning "song", usually used to describe romantic songs setting German poems of reasonably high literary aspirations, especially during the nineteenth century, beginning with Carl Loewe, Heinrich Marschner, and Franz Schubert and culminating with Hugo Wolf...
  
  er
• February 15 - Ján Valašťan Dolinský
  Ján Valaštan Dolinský
  Ján Valašťan Dolinský was a Slovak composer, teacher, journalist, esperantist and collector of folk songs.He graduated from a teacher's institute and then worked as a teacher...
  
  , Slovak composer (d. 1965)
• March 10 - Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
   (d. 1955)
• March 27 - Ferde Grofé
  Ferde Grofé
  Ferde Grofé was a prominent American composer, arranger and pianist. During the 1920s and 1930s, he went by the name Ferdie Grofé.-Early life:...
  
  , composer (d. 1972)
• April 1 - Renato Zanelli
  Renato Zanelli
  Renato Zanelli was a Chilean operatic baritone and later tenor, particularly associated with heroic Italian and German roles, notably Verdi's Otello.-Life and career:...
  
  , Chilean baritone, later tenor (d. 1935)
• April 2 - Roy Palmer
  Roy Palmer
  Roy Palmer was a U.S. jazz trombonist.Palmer was born in the Carrollton neighborhood of uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. Early in his career he also played violin, guitar and trumpet. He worked with brass bands including the Tuxedo and the Onward, with Papa Celestin, and with Richard M...
  
  , jazz trombonist (d. 1962)
• April 10 - Victor de Sabata
  Victor de Sabata
  Victor de Sabata was an Italian conductor and composer. He is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished operatic conductors of the twentieth century, especially for his Verdi, Puccini and Wagner. He is also acclaimed for his interpretations of orchestral music...
  
  , conductor and composer (d. 1967)
• April 12 - Johnny Dodds
  Johnny Dodds
  Johnny Dodds was an American New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong. Dodds was also the older brother of drummer Warren "Baby"...
  
   (d. 1940)
• April 19 - Germaine Tailleferre
  Germaine Tailleferre
  Germaine Tailleferre was a French composer and the only female member of the famous composers' group Les Six.-Biography:...
  
   (d. 1983)
• April 21 - Jaroslav Kvapil
  Jaroslav Kvapil (composer)
  Jaroslav Kvapil was a Czech composer, teacher, conductor and pianist.Born in Fryšták, he studied with Josef Nešvera and worked as a chorister in Olomouc from 1902 to 1906. He then studied at the Brno School of Organists under Leoš Janáček, earning a diploma in 1909...
  
  , composer (d. 1958)
• May 14 - Arthur Lourié
  Arthur Lourié
  Arthur-Vincent Lourié, born Naum Izrailevich Luria , later changed his name to Artur Sergeyevich Luriye was a significant Russian composer. Lourié played an important role in the earliest stages of the organization of Soviet music after the 1917 Revolution but later went into exile...
  
   (d. 1966), Russia
  Russia
  Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
  
  n-born expatriate composer
• May 16 - Richard Tauber
  Richard Tauber
  Richard Tauber was an Austrian tenor acclaimed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. Some critics commented that "his heart felt every word he sang".-Early life:...
  
  , Austrian singer (d. 1948)
• May 18 - Ezio Pinza
  Ezio Pinza
  Ezio Pinza was an Italian basso opera singer with a rich, smooth and sonorous voice. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas...
  
  , Italian singer and actor (d. 1957)
• June 6 - Ted Lewis
  Ted Lewis (musician)
  Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis , was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz, hokey comedy, and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. He was known by the moniker "Mr...
  
  , singer and bandleader (d. 1971)
• June 18 - Eduard Steuermann
  Eduard Steuermann
  Eduard Steuermann was an Austrian pianist and composer. The actress Salka Viertel was his sister...
  
  , pianist (d. 1964)
• June 21 - Hilding Rosenberg
  Hilding Rosenberg
  Hilding Rosenberg , was the first Swedish modernist composer, and one of the most influential figures in Swedish 20th century classical music....
  
  , Swedish composer (d. 1985)
• June 23 - Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (d. 1993)
• June 30 - László Lajtha
  László Lajtha
  László Lajtha was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor.-Career:Born to Ida Wiesel, a Transsylvanian-Hungarian with some Saxon-German ancestry as the name Wiesel indicates and Pál Lajtha, an owner of a leather factory...
  
  , Hungarian symphonist (d. 1963)
• July 2 - Jack Hylton
  Jack Hylton
  Jack Hylton was a British band leader and impresario.He was born John Greenhalgh Hilton in the Great Lever area of Bolton, Lancashire, the son of George Hilton, a cotton yarn twister. His father was an amateur singer at the local Labour Club and Jack learned piano to accompany him on the stage...
  
  , British bandleader
• July 8 - J. Russell Robinson
  J. Russell Robinson
  Joseph Russel Robinson was a United States ragtime and dixieland jazz pianist and a composer of jazz, blues, and popular tunes....
  
   (d. 1963)
• July 10 - Ján Móry
  Ján Móry
  Ján Móry was a Slovak composer and pedagogue also known under pseudonym H. Tschirmer.-Life:...
  
  , Slovak composer (d. 1978)
• July 26 - Philipp Jarnach
  Philipp Jarnach
  Philipp Jarnach was considered in the 1920s to be one of the most important composers of modern music....
  
   (d. 1982), composer of German-French origins
• August 14 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
  Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
  Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was an English composer, music critic, pianist, and writer.-Biography:...
  
  , composer, music critic and pianist (d. 1988)
• August 15 - Knud Jeppesen
  Knud Jeppesen
  Knud Jeppesen was a Danish musicologist, composer, and writer on the history of music....
  
   (d. 1974)
• September 4 - Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
  
   (d. 1974)
• September 5 - Joseph Szigeti
  Joseph Szigeti
  Joseph Szigeti was a Hungarian violinist.Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and moved to Budapest with his father to study with the renowned pedagogue Jenő Hubay...
  
   (d. 1973), violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  ist
• September 17 - Hendrik Andriessen
  Hendrik Andriessen
  Hendrik Franciscus Andriessen was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic liturgical music in the Netherlands. Andriessen composed in a musical idiom that revealed strong French influences...
  
   (d. 1981), Dutch
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
   composer and organist
• October 17 - Herbert Howells
  Herbert Howells
  Herbert Norman Howells CH was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.-Life:...
  
   (d. 1983)
• October 19 - Ilmari Hannikainen
  Ilmari Hannikainen
  Toivo Ilmari Hannikainen was a Finnish composer.Hannikainen was the son of Pekka Juhani Hannikainen and the brother of Väinö Hannikainen, both of whom were composers and of Tauno Hannikainen who was a conductor...
  
   (d. 1955)
• October 25 - Janszieka (Jennie) Deutsch
  Dolly Sisters
  The Dolly Sisters, twins Roszika and Janszieka Deutsch were Vaudeville performers.-Biographies:They were born October 25, 1892 in Hungary, and emigrated to the United States in 1905. They perfected a single-sex "tandem" dance act - practising in front of mirrors - under the name of 'The Dolly...
  
   and Roszicka (Rosie) Deutsch
  Dolly Sisters
  The Dolly Sisters, twins Roszika and Janszieka Deutsch were Vaudeville performers.-Biographies:They were born October 25, 1892 in Hungary, and emigrated to the United States in 1905. They perfected a single-sex "tandem" dance act - practising in front of mirrors - under the name of 'The Dolly...
  
  , Hungarian-born dancers, actresses and singers, billed as the Dolly sisters
  Dolly Sisters
  The Dolly Sisters, twins Roszika and Janszieka Deutsch were Vaudeville performers.-Biographies:They were born October 25, 1892 in Hungary, and emigrated to the United States in 1905. They perfected a single-sex "tandem" dance act - practising in front of mirrors - under the name of 'The Dolly...
  
  .
• November 28 - Thomas Wood
  Thomas Wood (composer)
  Thomas Wood was an English composer and author.Wood studied at the University of Oxford and the Royal College of Music. In 1921 he was appointed Director of Music at Tonbridge School in Kent, returning to Oxford in 1924 to teach at Exeter College...
  
  , English composer (d. 1950)
• December 9 - Beatrice Harrison
  Beatrice Harrison
  Beatrice Harrison was a British cellist active in the first half of the 20th century. She gave first performances of several important English works, especially those of Frederick Delius, and made the first or standard recordings of others.-Early training:Beatrice Harrison was born in Roorkee,...
  
  , cellist (d. 1965)
• December 11 - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
  Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
  Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was an Italian tenor with a lyric-dramatic voice of exceptional range and technical facility. He performed throughout Europe and the Americas in a top-class career that spanned 40 years....
  
   (d. 1979)

Deaths

• February 13 - Joseph Massart
  Joseph Massart
  Joseph Lambert Massart was a Belgian violinist.He was born in Liège, Belgium. Despite being sponsored by the king, he was not accepted at the Paris Conservatoire because of his foreign status. He became a private pupil of Rodolphe Kreutzer...
  
  , violinist (b. 1811)
• February 20 - Róza Csillag
  Róza Csillag
  Csillag Róza , also , Rose HermannCsillag, Rosa Hermann , was a Hungarian female Jewish opera singer....
  
  , opera singer (b. 1832)
• March 20 - Arthur Goring Thomas
  Arthur Goring Thomas
  Arthur Goring Thomas was an English composer. He was the youngest son of Freeman Thomas and Amelia, daughter of Colonel Thomas Frederick.He was born at Ratton Park, Sussex, and educated at Haileybury College...
  
  , composer (b. 1850) (suicide)
• April 22 - Édouard Lalo
  Édouard Lalo
  Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer.-Biography:Lalo was born in Lille , in northernmost France. He attended that city's music conservatory in his youth. Then, beginning at age 16, Lalo studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck...
  
  , composer (b. 1823)
• May 2 - Wilhelm Rust
  Wilhelm Rust
  Wilhelm Rust was a German musicologist and composer. He is most noted today for his substantial contributions to the Bach Gesellschaft edition of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach....
  
  , composer (b. 1822)
• May 6 - Ernest Guiraud
  Ernest Guiraud
  Ernest Guiraud was a French composer and music teacher born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing the traditional orchestral recitatives used for Bizet's opera Carmen and for Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann .- Biography :Guiraud began his schooling in Louisiana under the...
  
  , composer (b. 1837)
• August 18 - Jules Perrot
  Jules Perrot
  Jules-Joseph Perrot was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia...
  
  , ballet dancer (b. 1810)
• August 19 - František Zdeněk Skuherský
  František Zdenek Skuherský
  František Zdeněk Xavier Alois Skuherský was a Czech composer, pedagogue, and theoretician.Born in Opočno to František Alois Skuherský, the doctor of Duke Colloredo-Mansfeld and founder of the Opočno hospital. He graduated from the Hradec Králové gymnasium and studied philosophy and shortly...
  
  , composer, teacher and music theorist (b. 1830)
• September 24 - Patrick Gilmore
  Patrick Gilmore
  Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore was an Irish-born composer and bandmaster who lived and worked in the United States after 1848. Whilst serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Gilmore wrote the lyrics to the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", the tune he took from an old Irish antiwar folk...
  
  , bandmaster and composer (b. 1829)
• October 24 - Robert Franz
  Robert Franz
  Robert Franz was a German composer, mainly of lieder.-Biography:He was born Robert Knauth in Halle, Germany, the son of Christoph Franz Knauth...
  
  , composer (b. 1815)
• October 28 - Felix Otto Dessoff
  Felix Otto Dessoff
  Felix Otto Dessoff was a German conductor and composer.-Biography:Dessoff was born in Leipzig and entered the conservatory there where he studied composition, piano and conducting with some of the foremost teachers of the day, including Ignaz Moscheles for piano and Moritz Hauptmann and Julius...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1835)
• November 4 - Hervé
  Hervé (composer)
  Hervé , real name Louis Auguste Florimond Ronger, was a French singer, composer, librettist, conductor and scene painter, whom Ernest Newman, following Reynaldo Hahn, credited with inventing the genre of operetta in Paris.-Life:Hervé was born in Houdain near Arras...
  
  , organist and composer (b. 1825)
• November 19 - Antonio Torres Jurado
  Antonio Torres Jurado
  Antonio de Torres Jurado was a Spanish guitarist and luthier, and "the most important Spanish guitar maker of the 19th century."...
  
  , guitar maker (b. 1817)
• date unknown - Henry Christian Timm
  Henry Christian Timm
  Henry Christian Timm was a German-born American pianist, conductor, and composer.Timm worked in New York as a concert pianist, teacher, organist, and chamber musician. He also helped conduct the New York Philharmonic and served as the President of the city's Philharmonic Society from 1847 to 1864...
  
  , pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1811)